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PAGE 

1. Editorial 5 

2. Class Roll 7 

3. Pkogbamme 10 

4. Poem 11 

5. Oeation 19 

6. History 28 

7. Song 36 

8. Presentation Speech 37 

9. Chaplain's Address 51 

10. Tree Oration 57 

11. Parting Hymn 63 

12. Class Miscellany 64 

13. College Officers 67 

14. Society of the Alumni 70 

15. Catalogue of Students 71 

16. EoLL OF Honor 78 

17. Brainerd Society 79 

18. Natural History Society 80 

19. Washington Literary Society 83 

20. Franklin Literary Society 87 

21. Secret Fraternities 93 

22. Eating Clubs 109 

23. Boat Club 117 

24. Base-Ball Clubs 118 

25. Croquet Clubs 120 

26. Chess Clubs 122 

27. Glee Clubs 124 

28. Boxing Club 128 

29. Whist Club 129 

30. L O. of 0. E 130 




EDITORIIL. 



The memory of early struggles, and the recollection of frequent 
and long continued efforts to overcome difficulties, add intenser 
joy to the realization of our cherished hopes. We stand at such a 
point now in our upward progress. As Classmates and Friends, 
associates for four years in the same pursuits and pleasures, we 
desire as we go hence to take with us some memorial of these days 
and times. And before we leave our "Alma Mater" we would 
collect fuel to feed the flame of memory in coming years, and, also, 
to rejoice the hearts of her busy sons by showing the upward 
prqgress of our College. Such a motive prompts us to compile 
for the class, and the friends and patrons of our "Alma Mater," 
this humble memorial of our College life, hoping that it may 
prove a grateful remembrancer of College days and College joys. 

It will reveal much of the interior working of the institution, 
its organizations, its many phases of social life, and matters of 
general interest to both Student and Alumni. The highest words, 
both under the old philosophy and the new, "Culture" and 
" Progress," are inscribed upon her banner. Her friends are many, 
active, and generous. The glad return of our honored President 
we hail as an omen for good and a signal for another onward move. 
We bid him a hearty welcome. During the past year new build- 
ings have been finished, the old remodelled, the College grounds 
adorned with beautiful trees and shrubbery, and pleasant walks 
lead from East College to the other Halls. One sad change of 
the passing year will bring sorrow to many of the former inmates 
of Lafayette. The old CoUege steps, for so long such an important 

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feature of the institution, are no more. The Freshmen were 
caught tearing them up, and it was determined to remove them 
and substitute a winding walk. 

The chair of Physical Culture still remains vacant. No Gym- 
nasium yet crowns the crest of College Hill. But the Lehigh 
affords ample room on her placid bosom for that most manly 
exercise, boating; and we say all honor to '72, which, with charac- 
teristic energy, has led the van in the formation of a Boat Club, 
which we trust is the germ of the fviture navy of Lafayette. The 
inducements for the Alumni and friends of Lafayette to be present 
each year at her Commencement exercises are many, and still they 
continue to multiply. 

The Class of Seventy leave her classic shades with feelings of 
regret and yet of joy, and look forward hopefully to the time when 
we shall return to meet each other here again, and pay our tribute 
of respect and love to our honored *'Alnia Mater," 



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DAVID J. WALLER, Jk Peesident. 

JONATHAN EMMEET Vice-Pbesident- 

JAMES W. PIATT Reg. Seceetaet. 

TERENCE JACOBSON ' Coe. Seceetaet. 

WILLIAM GEMMILL Teeasueee. 



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EMBERS. 



JOSEPH H. BEENSINGER Media. 

RICHARD W. D. BRYAN Washington, N. J. 

CHARLES K. CANFIELD Stevensville. 

LUCIEN W. DOTY Mifflintown. 

JONATHAN EMMERT Benevola, Md. 

WILLIAM GEMMILL Milroy. 

JOSEPH J. HARDY St. Clair. 

WILLIAM G. HELLER Easton. 

TERENCE JACOBSON Baltimore, Md. 

SAMUEL H. KAERCHER Pottsville. 

FRANK H. PIATT Tunkhannock. 

JAMES W. PIATT Tunkhannock. 

HORACE ROLAND New Holland. 

WILLIAM S. RONEY Belvidere, N. J. 

ALEXANDER H. SHERREKD Belvidere, N. J. 

DAVID J. WALLER, Je Bloomsburg. 

JAMES H. WRIGHT McSherryville. 

J. RUSSEL YOUNGMAN Wiufield. 

JAMES P. ZIEGLER Mount Joy. 




PRAYER. 

MUSIC. 
Poem H. ROLAND. 

MUSIC. 
Oeation J. J. HARDY. 

MUSIC. 
History T. JACOBSON. 

S O N a. 
Tree Oeation W. S. RONEY. 

MUSIC. 
Peesentation Speech R. W. D. BRYAN. 

]M U S I C . 
Chaplain's Addeess C. K. CANFIELD. 

PARTING HYMN. 

BENEDICTION. 
J. RUSSEL YOUNGMAN Mastee of Ceeemonies. 




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ROSPECT. 



Man's active life is one huge mount, and men 
Of action all are climbers up its steep 
And rugged sides, toward full contentment at 
Its pinnacle. The cradled infant and 
Supported j^outh know little of the jars 
And joltings of the ways their guardians tread. 
The frowning heights and yawning chasms are but 
To them, as gentle hillocks and the gay 
Komantic undulations of the plain ; 
To them the jeers, the mocks, and envious tricks 
Of men, are but as playful barkings of 
The prairie dogs, and sicknesses are naught 
But holidays, for rare indulgences 
And pettings j)itiful. But when, of youth, 
The tenderness and verdancy have fled 
Into maturity, — which is a shame 
. To indolence, — and when the parent in 
The care-worn hour of age, hfts from his cot 
Of ease, him who for years his ward has been, 
And bids him brave, for livelihood, the toils 
And terrors of the steep ascent ; and bids 
Him take his stand amongst the ranks of men 
Who make this life such as it is — how has 
The scene been changed ! — sweet slumber's dream has been 
Transformed to stern reality, and rocks 
And ridges, sneers and mocks, their truthfulness 
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E'en back to Eden's exiles — stood and peered 

With longing contemplation up the peak 

Of life's ascent, that unattainable 

Doth pierce the clouds, and kiss contentment's star, 

And from the contact gleam, so even yet 

The youthful worldling stands, and, cheered by hope. 

Shrinks not from its dread grandeur, but presumes 

To scale its heights. 

O Hope ! thou gracious boon. 
That blindfolds man to coming woes of life. 
And comforts in their midst, and gives the balm 
That banishes discouragement, and heals 
Each weakening wound ; thou ambition's muse ! 
That sings the song that stirs the soul to high 
And noble aspirations, and fatigue 
Doth soothe ! without thee earth were hell, and men 
The ever tortured occupants, denied 
Of one calm moment for a smile, and void 
Of all that lends to memory a charm, 
Or tips anticipation with a tint. 
Yet Hope ! thou art a cold deceiver still — 
For perched upon thy throne, and beck'ning with 
Thy fascinating hand, and pointing to 
The nectar at thy feasts, — humanity 
Is tempted, and plods upward toward the bliss. 
Yet reaches but to catch the aroma of 
Thy breath, and see thee soar to loftier realms, 
Seduction to resume. 

Thus are the minds 
Of mortals never satisfied, but with 
One summit gained, another is in view. 
As with the manual laborer, so with 
The mental, for they both are human and 
The slaves of discontent. Their difference 
Dwells not in heart, nor aim, but in the tools 
Employed ; and whilst through thicket and through thorns 
Plods one, the wiser peeps and calculates 



POEM. 

Beyond his present harassings, and finds 
BotK happier and swifter ways toward 
The ever chased, yet ever distant prize. 
Thus we a youthful band of nineteen souls — 
Just in the dawn of our- commencement day 
Upon life's busy grade, and mirthful in 
Our youth, and happy in our freedom from 
The tedious restraints of many years, 
And skipping in ecstatic prime, beneath 
Our new, yet grave, responsibilities — 
Will be ambition's^eager dupes, and, blind 
To disappointing destinies of those 
Before, wiU hope to be hope's favorites. 

Four times the Autumn winds have stripped these trees- 
Four times the Spring-day has their garb renewed — 
Four Winters have these hills been wrapped in shrouds— 
Four Summer's suns have roused them from their trance- 
Since, gathered first from sundry climes, we met 
And each gave each a stranger's welcoming. 
Four years of kindred tasks and disciplines, 
Beneath the same wise care and skilfulness ; 
And four of social strolls amid these scenes 
Of Nature's hallowing, have tempered down 
To harmony our hearts' discordances. 
"We met as strangers, but we part as friends," 
Yet ere we go, we plant an emblem of 
Our unity, on this familiar soil- 
That when, in after days, we shall return 
To think of those just past, the maple here 
Will start, and move the panoramic view 
Of memories yet green — its upward growth 
Our upward march portray — its autumn seared 
And falling foliage, depict our sad 
Adversities. 

We part not eagerly, 
For parting is a solemn act, when ties 
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And ^^ farewell" is no fluent word, when choked 

By mutual loves. Yet we are curious to 

Behold the promises of flattering hopes 

Fulfilled ; and for this end each will his own 

Pathway pursue, for no two fancies sketch 

Or paint a scene alike, and fates contract 

No constant partnerships. Before us rears 

The majestic mount of life-long toils, and we, 

Like pigmies, creep confused about its base 

To choose the most inviting ways, that scale 

Its treacherous and unknown sides. Broad is 

The base, and myriad crossing pathways — each 

Bespangled o'er, with ignes faiul — 

Delude and dazzle curiousness of youth. 

"Would that from some celestial station, we 

Might view with eagle eye the trials of 

Each course, or woiild that from death's portal, we 

Might turn vdth retrospective wisdom back 

And choose fastidiously ! but such is not 

High heaven's decree, for future all is dark, 

And worldly wisdom ne'er such heights attains, 

And preference is ne'er so shrewd, as in 

That hour, when death its worth discards. Thus then 

In dark and doubtful inexperience. 

Each must select his solitary way. 

May fates decree the random fortunate ! 

To some, the educator's path will all 

Its charms unfold, and they will choose ' ' to teach 

The young idea to shoot ;" and they prefer 

Companionship of books, to that of men ; 

And they prefer the musty classic lore. 

That makes them friends or foes with all the world's 

Heroic chiefs, and wafts them back amid 

The scenes of yore, and gifts with Babel tongues, 

Or they the sanctity of nature's realms 

Will dare intrude — God's secrets to possess ; 

Or -will indulge a speculative taste 

In vain philosophy, that skepticism breeds — 



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POEM. 

And yet oblivious be, to glooms and woes 

That coming years will weave around their choice. 

For who, too high, can estimate the grave 

Accountabihties of him, who for 

Eternity doth shape immortal minds ; 

Yet who, too low, the thanks the shaping wins? 

And who too sadly wail the blighted hopes 

Of those who make a vain, though life-long, search 

For heaven's mysterious truths in nature's world ; • 

Or who in tangled metaphysics seek 

For some indulgent sacred scheme, till truths 

Seem false, or true and false forever mixed ? 

For others, ^sculapian ways will seem 

To offer ease and wealth, and they shall see 

Gay prospects in the van ; and they shall dream 

Of i^alaces and royal feasts, and all 

The pomp of high respect, and shall behold, 

"With fancy's eye, themselves far up " the hill 

Of science," perched with influential mien — 

And yet forgetful be, of all the strifes, 

The strains, the noonday toils, the midnight tramps. 

The dolesome scenes, repulsive sights, suspense. 

And fear, and conscience goads, and forfeitures — 

Th' eternal debts, that such attainments cost. 

O noble calling ! why such servitude ? 

And some in bustling thoroughfares will chance ; — 
Skilled in the law, or shrewd and glib of tongue, 
They shall transcend the cramped horizon of 
More menial minds, and fly away to fame, 
Amazing gaping multitudes, that will 
Kejoice, as servitors, to honor them. 
Or they shall revel 'mid the luxuries 
Of earth — the nation for the caterer — 
And shall control the meditations of 
The public mind. But are these joj'S ? Methinks 
The trumpets of departed days, and rude 
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In staying tones, the calumnies and tricks 
That rivals use in vexing eminence, 
For eminence and enmity are twins. 

And some in ministerial paths will tread ;— 

Content to walk apart from worldlincss. 

And flee the charm of sweet temptation's lute, 

In hope of an eternity's reward. 

And they shall choose to be the shepherds of 

Humanity, but in their choice forget 

The wayward flocks, and thankless tasks; the rude 

Backbitings, ridicules, and harsh tirades 

Of babbhng women in their gossipings, — 

For this is but their labor's recompense. 

0, high vocation ! why these stumbhng-blocks ? 

And others will in divers pathways turn ; 

But none uncheered by siren-gifted hope, 

And none secured from hydra-headed woes, 

Or clad against the piercing javeUns 

Of marshalled foes — impatient to torment. 

Yet each vocation can some joys afford, 

That like oases on the desert waste 

Kevive the fluttering hopes of caravans, 

And hght their fading fancies with new scenep, — 

For earth is not sheer hell, but only half — 

With Heaven and Hell the wide extremes, itself 

Well poised between, for our probationship. 

That with impartial eye, we may select 

From proffered fortunes, our eternities. 

And each pursuit affords subsistence for 

Each votary, since Providence is bland, 

And wills no incompleteness in her schema 

Just Fate has ushered us to Ufe, and wiU 

Transact her faithful part, if we do ours. 

In moulding, for us, gracious destinies. 

But to transact our faithful part is not 

An idle task, with sweet repose, and dreams 

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That scale the steep of life are difficult, 
And breed in many a heart discouragement 
That hope can scarce repel; and oft in these 
Dark, dismal moods the climber doth his hold 
And footing lose, or make vanskilled attempts 
To turn and tread in diverse ways — or two 
At once, till both are lost —and retrogrades 
To fearful depths, misfortune to bewail 
'Mid tangled brambles, in confused dismay. 

And now, dear classmates, conscious of the toils 

And griefs that will beset our coming march, 

Let us start forth with courage for the fray, 

And girt with all the panoply of war, 

Resolve to battle best what e'er attacka 

And may we ever fondle close to heart 

The precious teachings of those guides, who gave 

Us wisdom in our erring years, and whom 

We owe such gratitude and reverence 

As noble lives alone can pay. And let 

Us not be stirred by mad ambition's voice 

To fly from reason's realm, for fickle fame 

To snatch — since what is fame but mirage-like, 

Or like the transient beauty of a girl, 

That angels take no notice of in heaven; 

That oft is ruin's harbinger on earth; 

And oft bewitches for a day, then yields 

Its charm to some n6w face, and is forgot. 

And think not, boon companions, that the world 

Will honor us when dead. A single tear 

Fresh from the sincere fountain of the soul 

Is all we dare expect from those we leave 

Behind. The sympathies of those alive 

Are but with living things, and for their sport 

Will be employed our putrid carcasses; — 

For death presenteth envied pocket-books. 

And pomp and pageantry of burial rites 

Are naught but worldly mocks, that have their source 

In selfish loves, for gala-days and feasts. 

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We all do well remember that sad night 

Of three Decembers gone, when wintry winds 

In their bleak sport were chanting choruses 

About the corners of yon classic walls; 

And when Eolian choristers were in 

The chimneys whispering doleful requiems; 

And when the haloed moon shed down her pale 

And ghastly light upon a sheeted world; 

And when the few stray beams that flickered thi-ougli 

The chapel windows never looked so sad, 

Nor gave the silence there such mystic words; 

When panting on his sudden couch, away 

From home, away from mother's care, and yet 

With a bemoaning brother near, and an 

Unanswered father calling him to life — 

We saw a much lamented classmate die; 

And how we tried, as human hearts best can. 

To reverence his soulless tenement. 

And then resumed the routine of our lives ; 

And how the world went plodding on, to think 

Not of its loss. 

So will it be with i^s 
When dead. The burial rites complete, the sun 
And moon will run their cycles as of old ; 
The seasons still will change, and men will still 
Press up the toilsome steep of life ; and each 
Pursuing favored phantoms, still will climb. 
Oh what a world of cheats this is ! yet men 
Oft do desire to linger here for aye — 
Unmindful that Mount Calvary doth yield 
More luscious fruits, and greater joys affords 
Than Paradise could give. So live that when 
The last and great Commencement day arrives. 
We shall enjoy a blest reunion on 
The Campus of the skies, where Gabriel's Irvimp 
And angels' lips shall be the orchestra. 



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J. J. HARDY. 



RELIGION AND LIBERTY. 

FouK years' experience has convinced me, and a mucli larger 
exj^erieuce, I have no doubt, has fully convinced you, ladies and 
gentlemen, that the most distinguishing characteristic of a newly 
fledged college graduate is supreme conceit. And it is not at all im- 
probable that this feeling has not been wanting among the motives 
that have prompted us to ask your presence upon such an occasion 
as this; but since your charity and wonted kindness have forgiven 
us our presumption, and induced you to consent to grace this occa- 
sion with your fair presence, it becomes us to do what we can to 
make it as pleasant and profitable as possible. And though 
we may not presume to hope to instruct you in any great 
degree, yet we have thought that the time might not be wholly lost 
if we review some thoughts not new to many of you, but which from 
the pressure of business and the cares of life are not as familiar as 
we all would like to have them. We lay it down as a conceded 
proposition, that man's first duty in this world is to make himself 
better. This truth, familiar to the head, but not sufficiently familiar 
to the heart, we get both from our religious and political creeds. The 
repeated injunction of the Scriptures is, be ye perfect, and the bold 
annunciation of the Declaration of Independence is that each man 
possesses the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and by and through 
these to the pursuit of happiness. To the good men who framed 

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that instrument happiness could only mean the fulfilment of man's 
highest end. 

The grand end of life is perfect manhood. True living is perfect 
growing. This is the grand end of each man, and this the true life 
of each man. This is the grand end of the race, and this the true 
life of the race. To aid this growth, to promote this end, we be- 
lieve that the world and all things in it were made. To this great 
end, and to this growth, we believe all human institutions must con- 
tribute. Not the least, and certainly one of the greatest among 
these, is government. The history of government begins with the 
history of the race. We are wont to point proudly to the Puritans as 
our ancestors, forgetting all the laboring generations that have pre- 
ceded them; but science, stern in the truth, and coldly ignoring our 
pride, points with imperious finger to the old patriarchs. 

Politics has had two periods. Its minority and its majority. 
The father first governed. His claims of power grew as his family 
grew, and culminated in the despotism of the king. The king 
claimed proprietorship in the people, and fortified his claims by 
dungeons and armies, and ignorance and superstition. He stoutly 
asserted that men were made for the State, and vigilantly main- 
tained the divine right of kings. 

This, the period of one man power, was the tutelary life of the 
race. The history of the world is one of infinite wisdom. Democ- 
racy then would have been wildest anarchy. The father, the patri- 
arch, and the king has each done his part in the education of the 
race, and though they have sometimes ruled with an iron rod and 
punished with a wreaking sword, yet from their guardianship has 
ax'isen an offspring brave, stout, and promising. Its earliest claims 
were first successfully made in Britain. There in that grand old 
theatre of great men, and great deeds, it passed its early years. 
England was a fit nursery for liberty; but to develop its full-grown 
manhood, to attain the full beauty and power of its maturity, it 
needed larger room, a purer atmosphere, and greater means, and 




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God gave it this continent. The first great utterance of its early 
manhood was that all men were created free and equal. Amid the 
green mountains, fertile valleys, and broad plains of this new world 
it rapidly grew to its full stature. Its last great thought, the result 
of its mature experience and profound reflection, was that govern- 
ments are of the people, and by the people, and for the people. 

With this announcement, there on the rocky hills of Gettysburg, 
on the death scene of slavery, amid a people still bleeding and 
blackened by the battles of freedom, amid the graves of dead heroes 
and the shouts of an emancipated race, by the voice of one who was 
destined to seal his faith with his blood, liberty threw off the last 
shackles that bound her. To this point the working centuries of all 
the past had brought the race, and it is one of the grandest scenes 
in all its history. Grand in the long ages of blood, desolation, and 
death, of struggling and revolutions in politics, philosophy, and 
religion, that led to it ; grand in its glorious consummation, and 
can we doubt but infinitely grander still in the mighty consequences 
that shall follow it ? 

This last proclamation of our nation was to the race and for the 
race. It asserted that man was superior to government, and that it, 
like every other institution, must contribute to his life or perish. 
Up to this time, even in the freest governments, the individual had 
been too much subjected to the State. This grand speech of Mr. 
Lincoln's gave to the world the formula of political liberty un- 
shackled. History, therefore, says, and reason sustains her when 
she says, that self-government is the highest form of liberty. The 
people must be governed by the people. Thus each man becomes a 
votei-, and each voter a law-giver and a judge. And this had been 
the grand desideratum of all civilized men. Of this liberty poets 
have sung from the earliest days of Greece till now. Of this 
orators have pleaded in words that, burning into the hearts of men, 
inflamed them to deeds of noblest heroism. For this statesmen 
have labored, warriors fought, and millions of patriots of a hum 
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THE REPORTER, 




bier rank gladly sacrificed life and all that mates life dear. This 
has been the great problem of the whole political life of man. 

But this is not yet the end. Liberty with the masses means yet 
but the ability to do what one pleases. 

This is all that the cruelest tyrant that ever lived could desire. 
This is all that the meanest traitor that ever rebelled did ask. This 
is all that the wickedest man that ever delighted in sin would wish. 
Grive every man this unrestrained power, and the world would be 
filled with all murders, licentiousness, and all manner of abomina- 
tions. You must not cast pearls before swine, lest they turn upon 
you and tear you. The seat of liberty is in the hearts of the people, 
and you must make them free before they can enjoy it ; you must 
make them pure before they are fit for it. That man is free who 
throws off the mantle of ignorance that blinds him, who looks out 
upon nature, studies his power over her and over his fellows, and 
then intelligently and deliberately uses his power. He is free who 
throws from his mind the might of prejudice, steps aside from the 
beaten path of authority, custom, and training, uses the mind that 
G-od gave him to use, on every argument, opinion, and doctrine that 
presents itself, and then fearlessly and conscientiously judges for 
himself. He is free who cherishes the aspirations of his soul for a 
purer, holier, higher life, takes the strong passions of his nature in 
a firm grasp, subdues them to the power of his will, and then makes 
them aid him in his efforts after a higher happiness. The passions 
in men can bind them in bonds more galling than any that the 
cruelest tyrant ever invented. We hate the tyranny that fetters the 
limbs, that robs the poor man of his vineyard, that hangs the uncer- 
tain sword over his life ; but who shall express our hate for that 
tyranny, that binds the eiforts of the mind, that shrouds the reason 
in withering darkness, that blights the aspiration of the soul, and 
crushes to a creeping thing him that was made but a Httle lower 
than the angels. 

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and for a time carried on in the minds of the people. That our 
people have a lively appreciation of the value of this truth, as far as 
regards intellectual culture, is abundantly evidenced in the interest 
they have always had and the rapid strides they have made in popu- 
lar education. But this we must soon learn is only half the work. 
The sensibilities are the main-springs of human action. The heart 
of man is the great motive power in the world. Men act not so 
much from reason as from feeling, interest, and prejudice. Hence it 
becomes absolutely necessary that the public conscience be educated. 
Philosophy teaches us conscience is a twofold faculty. That it is 
part judgment and part emotion. It is, therefore, necessary to 
educate not only the judgment, but this peculiar moral emotion that 
accompanies an act of conscience must also be nourished into 
powerful maturity. Philosophy teaches us that conscience can be 
educated. So do our Bibles and our own experiences. As con- 
science should be the ruling power in the life of the individual, so 
should the public conscience be in the life of the nation. The pub- 
lic conscience is but the aggregate of the individual consciences. If 
then the individual conscience is right, so will the public conscience 
be. Until the public conscience is quickened into a lively activity, 
it is unsafe, nay it is positively dangerous to trust a people with the 
powers of self-government. 

Now there is nothing, nor can there be anything, in this world 
so well calculated to nourish, instruct and quicken the conscience of 
men as religion. This is its divinely appointed mission. Its influ- 
ence falls upon the willing heart like summer showers from heaven, 
and there spring up all manner of beautiful flowers and good fruits. 
It subjugates the power of sense and the animal in man, opens and 
prepares his mind for the reception of truth, quickens it in its pur- 
suit and apprehension of it, raises him above self and enlai-ges his 
love till he calls all men brothers, shows him all the world as his 
inheritance, and its Maker as his own father, and makes him inde- 
pendent, strong and brave in the right. Such men are the men to 




THE REPORTER, 




make a nation great, and such religion and religion only can make. 
Thus it is the life-power of the members of the State, and it is as 
essential to its health as oxygen to the health of the body. 

And history confirms this statement. Christianity alone has 
made and preserved England, Grermany and America the great 
powers that they are. In examples without number she teaches us 
that without it no nation can live. For lack of it France alternately 
runs with blood or moans under the tyranny of an Emperor, 
Spain to-day struggles helplessly in the arms of military usurpation, 
and Italy lay for centuries in blackest night, unsolaced even by the 
beautiful songs of her former glory. 

We advocate no union of Church and State, but a union of religion 
and patriotism in the hearts of the people. We would have religion 
direct the conscience, and conscience direct the vote of each citizen. 
A democracy is made up of integral parts. If these integers are 
healthy, the State will be strong; if they are corrupt, the State will 
be weak and perish from its own decay. It is folly to talk of the 
perpetuity of the Union if religious institutions can be desecrated, 
elections carried by colonization, and Presidents elected by money 
and whiskey. If ever the individual intellect becomes dark, if ever 
the individual will becomes weak, if ever the individual conscience 
becomes corrupt, then will the solemn voices of history, religion and 
reason cry in terrible mockery of all our pride and previous glory, 
Ichabod — " The glory is departed." Then well may the knees of 
wicked statesmen smite together, for the writing will already be 
upon the wall. And the danger increases as the power of the citi- 
zen increases. Our only hope of continued political existence and 
increased political glory is in an intelligent public judgment and a 
correct moral sentiment. Better than walls of stone and brass, better 
than a thousand Gibraltars, better than Demosthenes' wall of cities, 
are intelligent and virtuous voters. It is utterly foolish to keep 
politics apart from religion. If politics is corrupt, let religion purify 
it. Do not carry politics into the pulpit, but religion to the ballot- 




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box. But there is a reciprocal influence between the citizen and the 
State. Not only does the character of the citizen mould and deter- 
mine the character of the State, but the State largely contributes to 
form the character of the citizen. And the power of government in 
this regard should be carefully guarded and used. Whatever can 
be done to advance human knowledge, to facilitate intellectual cul- 
ture among the masses, to elevate the public morals, should be 
cheerfully and carefully done. Government must itself be an 
example to the people. In all its laws a sacred regard to justice 
between man and man should be clearly manifest. In all its deal- 
ings with other States, it should base its actions upon the teach- 
ings of Christian morality. It should encourage and foster, not 
denominations nor sects, but religion among the people. It must 
obviously denounce and to its utmost ability restrain all manner 
of wickedness. Stealing from the public funds, by whatever name 
it may be called ; unjust and unequal distributions of the public 
patronage ; bribery, whether by position, money, or whiskey, should 
be summarily punished. Statesmen must feel that example is better 
than precept. There is much room for fear in any government 
when the Emperor shields a notorious murderer who bears his own 
name, the heir to the throne is a known debauchee, or the Presi- 
dent is an habitual drunkard. Governments should be themselves 
thoroughly leavened by religious principles. Professional boxers 
have not the highest conceptions of the duties of a great State ; pro- 
fessional gamblers can hardly make laws to regulate a just people, 
nor are habitual drunkards and profane swearers the proper per- 
sons to represent a Christian community. 

Our courts of justice especially should be beyond reproach. The 
characters of the judges should be unimpeachable. There can 
be little respect for justice among the masses, when courts are 
notoriously given to favor large railroad corporations, or to turn- 
ing out naturalization papers faster than it is possible to sign 
them. The people to a large degree derive their morals from the 





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institutions which govern them and which are for an example to 
them. 

The sanctity of the oath should be carefully guarded. Let this be 
lost and the power of the courts is destroyed, and all the ends of 
justice frustrated. The voice of the Father of his Country should be 
heard as the voice of a prophet when he speaks of this great evil. 

The prevalent abuse of the divorce laws is another subject for the 
attention of government. If the marriage relation is not kept 
sacred from the corruption that threatens ifc, the very foundation 
of society will be ruined, and moral decay, confusion, and corruption 
are inevitable. 

Government must guard with an impartial rigor the private 
rights of its citizens. It must encourage and when possible aid the 
lowly to make themselves comfortable homes. Let men see and feel 
that they owe their homes and the happiness of themselves and all 
their dear ones to the State in a great measure, and their patriotism 
will be invincible. Rome made her greatest conquest when her 
people worshipped the goddess of the hearth. 

The ends of government are vast. I fear we are too much accus- 
tomed to look upon it as an institution originated and formed 
entirely by man ; that its end is merely to protect man against his 
neighbor and aid him in getting rich. This is too low a conception 
of it. It is ordained of God, not in form, perhaps, but in fact. The 
ruler should be a minister of good to man in a higher sense than we 
are accustomed to think. The Gospel of Jesus Christ shows to man 
the end of life, shows him his great exemplar and instructs him how 
to attain unto them. True liberty is freedom from restraint in the 
pursuit of this great end. This liberty government should guaranty 
to man. Government should aid and encourage him in his pursuit 
of this great end. 

We shall conclude, therefore, that religion is the all essential, the 
soTil of political life. It teaches men what liberty is, it makes them 
capable of it, and its natural and inevitable result is to make them 





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patriotic and free. After religion shall have prepared men for 
freedom no chains are strong enough to bind them. 

It has been said that God gives to nations missions. The history 
of this nation though short has been full of glory. From a handful 
of people stretching in a narrow line along the shores of the 
Atlantic, feeble in all worldly possessions, struggling for a political 
existence, she has grown to a nation of thirty millions of freemen, 
covering the richest part of a great continent, stretching from ocean 
to ocean, penetrated by great rivers, and rich in everything that can 
make her physically great. She has already originated and com- 
pleted some of the grandest works in physics and politics. The 
talent of her sons has brought England and America within speak- 
ing distance of each other, and opened a highway across her own 
broad territory for the wealth of the world. But above all this, she 
has wrought out the problem of man's highest liberty, and exempli- 
fied it in her own glorious life. She has thrown from her own neck 
the dead carcass that bound her, and she stands to-day the unim- 
peachable teacher of the race in the great principles of human 
freedom. But all her power, all her wealth, all her intelligence, all 
her glory, all her advancement in liberty, she owes to religion. 
Christianity gave them and Christianity must preserve them. And 
if she remain true to it, it doth not yet appear what she shall be. 
With a population of one hundred millions, occupying one of the 
finest portions of all the earth, gifted with every possible natural 
advantage, with a people the boldest in enterprise, the most active 
in education and science, the most devoted to human progress, the 
bravest and freest ; and, fm-thermore, moved by the animating, 
purifying, consecrating truths of Christianity, it is beyond the power 
of man to conceive what vast achievements, to what supreme heights 
of lasting glory, this young nation may yet attain. If we make its 
power the soul of the republic, " eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, 
neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive the great 
things that God hath prepared for it." 




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T. J ACO BSO N. 

As a baud of warriors, we stand on the eve of conflict, clad, in the 
armor of hope, awaiting the struggle of truth. Like Alexander we 
have girded on our sword at the to^nbs where lie enshrined the 
memories of departed heroes, and are ready to rush on to con- 
quest. The task of recounting the incidents of our training, our 
weapons and modes of warfare, has fallen to me. If I outstep the 
bounds of the historian proper and deal with the imaginative as 
well as the actual, I trust I shall be pardoned. If I thus digress 'tis 
not because of the scarcity of facts nor the deficiency of interest in 
the proper field ; but as a colt will leave the best pasture, simply 
because he can, so may I, having fed on the clover of facts, leap 
over the fence among the weeds of fiction. We enlisted in the four 
years' service with many different motives, though all could unite in 
saying they were governed by the same actuating principle (Prin- 
cipal), W. C. Cattell. A few were perfectly independent, not caring 
whether school kept or not, nor did the school care whether it kept 
them ; being mutually agreed, furloughs were granted by which they 
were enabled to visit their friends. Perhaps the greater part of 
our number were urged by worthy motives to a worthy end. Forty- 
two were entered on the muster rolls, but only forty appeared in 
camp. A pleasant sunny afternoon of September greeted us while 
we were seated in the spacious reception-room of the officers of the 

post, awaiting a careful and thorough analysis of our rations. 

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HISTORY. 



Evei'ytliing seemed painted green ; it could liave been naught else 
save the reflex image of ourselves impressed upon the external 
surroundings^ and as we snuffed the fragrance from every hand we 
remarked : " We shall like these quarters, they smell so fresh ;" but 
oh ! how soon we were doomed to disappointment, for scarcely had 
we uttered this when we were ordered to march ; a pretty long 
march too. This was excessively fatiguing and difficult. The way 
lay through a narrow pass with overhanging precipices on either 
side, where sat the fates to slum]) those who tried the 2^o,ss. Very 
few pass through it without having the best conditions of mind 
and body. If you are unable to take in at a glance the present, 
past, and future, you can't come uj) to time, and you fall behind as 
stragglers. If there's nothing indicative of future usefulness about 
you, nor any redeeming subjunctive quality, you scarcely are in a 
potential mood to stand this march. We shrunk back in terror 
from the names that our mathematical professors bear, for we 
early imbibed the doctrine that " coming events cast their shadows 
before." We began seriously to think whether we had not been led 
forth to execution. In consequence of such reflections we felt quite 
sick ; but, being masters of a complicated evolution, we extracted 
the juice of some roots and soon got well. Henceforth they had an 
attractive rather than a repulsive tendency, for they stuck to us 
nearly four years, and have often made us " see stars" while on 
guard. Our company was formed not according to size, but age. 
The son of Adam (Adamson) was placed on the right. We had no 
older, nor did we well see how we could get any except we took 
Adam himself ; whilst all those between his day and that of the 
patriarchs followed according to their respective ages. Isaac's 
grandson ( Jacobson) was placed on the right of the second platoon, 
and so rapidly did they decrease in age that on the company's left 
there was a very young man (Youngman). We had some very good 
men, which is inferred from their rapid promotion; one soon became 
"Major," another a "lieutenant," a third a ca(l)f, which is a cor- 




THE REPORTEK. 




ruption for Cap., the short of captain. "VVe had a " Cone" who has 
since been cut into quite a mathematical figvire. We ran a great 
Pdslc in some of our first encounters, because we had only one 
Hand; but somehow we got a-long (Long). In one of ou.r first 
scouting expeditions we captured a Bare, but he escaped. Nathaniel 
was with us for a while, but having caught a severe cold by remov- 
ing some sods at dead of night, he was taken to the Asylum in 
Bradford Co. of this State ; report says he is convalescing. The 
names having been entered on the company's roll, quarters were 
assigned us in different parts of the barracks, where, undisturbed, 
we thought of the past and the future ; — the past, laden with memo- 
ries of loved ones at home, from whom we were separated, perhaps 
forever — at least for four years— and if a kind Providence should 
cause us to retrace our steps whence we came, 'twould not be to 
mingle in the scenes of our early days ; those who were our 
associates then, would be alike affected by the march of time ; we 
would not be the boys of eighteen, fond of the sports of youth, but 
the college bred men of twenty-two, fond of metaphysical intricacies 
and logical reasonings, of whom everybody expects everything. These 
reflections could only find expression in some touching melody, and 
for a long time the vibrations of the air through some crevice or 
half-opened window would bring to the ear the familiar sound of 
" Home, Sweet Home ;" whilst a contemplation of the futu.re was 
fraught with the most cheering prospects, mingled with some anx- 
iety; the cheering prospects beamed upon us when we considered 
ourselves the "primi viri" of our native village, and looked forward 
to distinction in the ranks of her veterans, while anxiety filled the 
space between this and the exit from our Alma Mater as baccalau- 
reated graduates. We soon became adapted to our quarters — six 
hours i^na day enabled us to do so pretty well — and settled down, 
determined to stick it out. Having been sworn in, we anxiously 
awaited the issue of the catalogues, to assure ourselves of a full start 
in the Freshman year. We were drilled three hours a day; the 



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remainder of the time was spent in keeping our armor bright and 
getting rested, and, as Fred. Douglas says, " We were great on the 
rest." I never saw a company which, when the order "In ph^ce, 
rest," was given, obeyed better, though perhaps they obeyed fully 
as well when it was out of place. We began drilling in the cellar, 
because we were thought to keep better there, owing to our liability 
to decay. The first thing to learn was that " an idea is not a quan- 
tity." " That must be a great idea that you can't increase, and a 
pretty small one that you can't diminish. I wouldn't give a six- 
pence for the man who couldn't add up a few ideas and give you 
the sum on paper, or for him whose brain is so sterile that ideas 
will not multiply there and yield rich and abundant products, or 
for that idea which, if divided, or from which if anything be sub- 
tracted, is so poor as to leave no remainder." Such was the 
haughty language with which, as objectors, we attacked the first 
redoubt in Algebra. Yet ideas must often be of such a nature, else 
we could not have men of one idea. When we had the j^oicer to 
form a square (a very difficult thing to do in our "evolutions"), we 
then lost all control of ourselves and became "irrational quantities;" 
having no root, we were capable of little increase, but great decrease 
— in fact, we were " radically" inclined to continue our " progres- 
sion" into an "infinite series" of "terms." Livy was our early 
historian (I wish he had lived to be such now); he taught us to lay 
out a camp and plough the furrows of its boundary (I would say, 
however, that he did not lay out this Campus). We liked him very 
much, but thought he did not talk very plain sometimes, and found 
it much easier to understand him when he employed an "inter- 
preter." Cyrus was too young for us ; we being men of seventy, 
could have little affinity for so juvenile a hero. We were all " com- 
posed" in Latin, and carefully obeyed the injunction of the lecturer 
on health, not to have much to do with pi>, so that when the Greek 
instructor asked us for the vocative case of the word for boy, we 
unanimously exclaimed "pies" (this may not be the proper pro- 



THE REPORTER. 



nunciation, but we were afraid to make any hissing sound at the 
professor). We were able, before leaving the Freshman year, to 
tell the condition of " Greece" when " Ham" was in it. We had 
enjoyed a dead see (sea) in the land of Palestine. Could circum- 
scribe every angle in the building, and subscribe every petition to 
the Faculty. Could get over the ground that Herodotus travels 
with amazing velocity, if we did use "inanimate agents." Had 
formed such a fondness for "Horace" that we have kept him 
constantly with us. Thus qualified, we were eager for the second 
degree, and were gratified, after accomplishing the most impressive 
transaction of our first year. The first of April dawned upon us 
with all the beauties of a spring morning. Tired of winter's attire, 
we changed our garments and assumed the dress of fantastics. 
Bound to commemorate the day with due propriety, we turned 
inside out and outside in, representing various nationalities, sexes, 
professions, and trades. Bent upon making fools of ourselves, if of 
no one else, we entered the presence of the grave professor, who 
was nearly as much disfigured as we, but from a difi'erent cause. 
Having allowed us quietly to take our seats, he said : " Owing to 
our general disability this morning, the class is excused." We were 
not a little surprised to know that while we were cutting up, the 
Faculty were " cutting down," for our conduct grade was ninety- 
five instead of one hundred. The excitement of this affair having 
somewhat subsided, we were made " wise fools," and gladly accepted 
the position with all its concomitants. Our ranks this year were 
enlarged by three recruits, who were welcomed and admitted to 
a full share of the dignity. One of these was soon taken from us. 
He remained long enough, however, to become endeared to us all. 
Amiable, unassuming, faithful, and diligent, with a deportment 
unimpeachable and a character irreproachable, who of us does not 
this day remember the Christian and scholar, Edward K. Meigs, and 
regret that he is not here to participate in the festivities of this 
occasion ? While we would be pleased with his company here, we 





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would not call him down from the joys above, but rejoice in the 
assurance that he is awaiting our arrival, to celebrate an eternal 
class-day in the Celestial City. 

The hardest work of this year was to dig through a deep trench 
(Trench), do good acts (Acts), "walk beside the loud-resounding 
sea," and as lager (logar) was prominent among the many ithms 
that we had to deal with, there arose a necessity of knowing how to 
"navigate" and "survey." We meditated a grand finale to this 
year, but were disappointed in this, as in many other things, by the 
intervention of the Faculty. And for the benefit of those that 
intend coming here (if any such there be), we would say that you 
are not always able to have your own way. Your plans may be well 
matured and on the eve of execution, when a gentle yet stern voice 
whispers, "Think of the consequences, beware of hud precedent," and 
you drop it suddenly. We were determined not to be altogether 
out-generaled ; so at its close we sang, for the benefit of ourselves 
and the amusement of our professor in the recitation-room, a few 
verses of a solemn, pathetic, and sentimental dirge, which began as 
follows, viz. : 

Old Homer's dead, that poor old man, 
We ne'er shall see him more ; 

We've often tried his lines to scan, 
Till our poor eyes were sore. 

As we got up higher we wanted the " crown," and received it into 
our hands, but found it a bad fit for our heads; so we returned it 
to Demosthenes with memorable presentation speeches before the 
Athenian assembly. We were by this time such admirers of nature 
as to study her philosophy, and spent much of our time in rolling 
" Connecticut stones" up an inclined plane for the sake of seeing 
them come down again. By this exercise our " constitution" was 
strengthened so that we could tell a long " Story" after it had been 
just told us, even before we had much time to think of it. We 
chained Prometheus to the cold rock without the slightest emotions. 



THE REPORTER. 



and cared little whether he ever got unbound. This year we trav- 
elled a great deal. Among the Saxons we learned that the wife was 
the "spindle half," and the husband the "spear half." It is vic(^ 
versa nowadays, the women do the hunting and the men get 
caught in the fowler's snare. We stayed in Great Britain a long 
time; saw Milton and Shakespeare ; thought it necessary to study 
a little German before going on the Continent. While engaged in 
reciting this favorite language one delightful afternoon, the serenity 
of the occasion was disturbed by the fluttering of a bird let loose 
from its seclusion in somebody's coat-tail. While the x^rofessor was 
getting reconciled to his new pupil and muttered quite inaudibly, 
"Are you coming any more?" quoth the pigeon, "Nevermore," and 
jumped out of the second story window. Before he would come again 
he must be assured that " Der professor ist nicht tsu hause." We 
travelled in the region of the " Romans," looked at Julius Csesar, 
got into the careless style of Tacitus, so that it was impossible to 
read what we had written. We spent the last days of this year 
in Harmony, under the shade trees, and in singing the " Psalm of 
Life" without any discord or dissenting voice in the College chapel. 
This last performance took so well that it brought the Seniors to 
their feet. But it's no use to get your back up in college, for when 
you get up to do anything desperate, the Faculty always give you 
an easy grade to run on. We thought we would retaliate • so when 
they began to address us we got up, but were in like manner taken 
down. Having had so much to do with gravity, of course we were 
ready to be grave seniors. This year we returned, and as we sailed 
into our own Haven we began to "reflect." The "reproduction" 
and "recognition" of friends exercised our memory. We did not 
know whether to believe our senses, everything had changed so. We 
were taught to rely a great deal upon our "imagination," therefore 
we naturally made use of this in other studies besides mental philos- 
ophy. We were splendid " economists," because we knew a man to 
be better off when rich than when poor, for he can gratify more 




HISTORY. 



desires ; good logicians, because we knew the beginning and gener- 
ally the end of our " terms ;" good morahsts, because we thought it 
wrong for an ass to stand between two equally good bundles of hay 
and die, rather than show partiality by eating of either ; good 
geologists, because we understood boring and getting bored for 
kerosene oil — ^boring, when we borrowed of some one else ; but get- 
ting bored when the converse took place. We were so proficient 
in Butler's Analogy that we only needed a start, and from the 
" analogy" we could easily infer the rest, so that our first lesson was 
carefully prepared, and the rest drawn from it by " analogy." We 
looked at the stars and were greatly elevated above the other classes ; 
knocked "spots" out of the moon and her son (sun), and got 
pretty near " luna ;" were conversant with " Saturn " and his boys, 
" Jupiter " and " Neptune," and considered it essential, before we 
became good astronomers, for us to pursue the "higher" studies. 
Such has been a hasty review of the inner life of '70 during our 
sojourn within this classic retreat. Its history is blended, in com- 
mon with that of other classes, with much that marks an era of 
progress in the history of our Alma Mater. Its object has been to 
sustain her growing reputation, in the faithful discharge of duty. 
Its annals are filled with items of interest peculiarly its own, the 
recital of which time forbids. The incidents above mentioned 
appertain to the past of '70, and will, I trust, prove refreshing to its 
members as they journey thi'ough life's desert, as well as interesting 
to you who manifest interest in our welfare. May the prospective 
be brighter than the retrospective. 



.AS^ 



^^y 



Air,— "AULD LANG SYNE." 

When children from their mother part, 

A farewell they should give, 
The language of a grateful heart, 

The wish that she may thrive ; 
So now a few of Seventy's band 

Would high our voices raise, 
To crown her queen of all the land ; 

'Tis Lafayette we praise. 

The Bible for her corner-stone, 

God's precious gift to man, 
With hallow'd garments overthrown. 

Defile her, oh ! who can ? 
She's founded on the lasting rock. 

Set high upon the hill, 
Majestic 'mid the tempest's shock, 

Her mission to fulfill. 

To those who labor in her walls, 

Who teach her doctrines true. 
On whom a heavy burden falls. 

Ten thousand thanks are due ; 
For you have shown us wisdom's ways. 

And how to walk therein ; 
Of you we'll think in after days, 

As we fresh laurels win. 

Classmates ! as we have four years been, 

So ever let us be, 
A magic unit of nineteen. 

And never disagree. 
Then when Life comes, however lono' 

Or short may be the strife, 
Our song shall be the victor's song. 

Our crown the crown of life. 



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m^tmntMim ^f tttl^ 



R. W. D. BRYAN. 

We are in the midst of gayety and excitement. Everything 
around demands, from us, joy and mirth. How inconsistent are 
these with our j)osition ! We are now saying farewell, and, per- 
haps, for many of us a final farewell to scenes, faces, and associa- 
tions with which four years' acquaintance has made us familiar. Is 
it natural for us to be gay, lively, or happy ? Why then should we 
restrain our natural impulses and assume a deceptive appearance ? 
It is for you, my friends. You are all doubtless ready to rejoice 
with us if we rejoice, but few, very few, would weep with us if we 
wept. This is a season of festivities for you. Sorrow does not min- 
gle in the cujd of your mirth. What are we, mourners, among so 
many joyous ones ? It is fitting, then, that we should draw the 
cloak of secrecy over our private griefs and array ourselves in a 
wedding garb of gladness. 

I have been honored by the class with the duty of formally pre- 
senting to the members such gifts of remembrance as each has been 
deemed worthy of receiving. Whom should we reward first ? 
Why, obviously the one who has proved himself of the greatest 
service to the class. Who is he ? Why, he who has excelled his 
fellows in chivalrous devotion to the fair sex. Our Ladies' man is 
the one whom we delight to honor. We hold him greatest, not 
from forced flattery or that it might be apparently adventitious 
adulation, but from the firm conviction that he, above all, has true 
greatness of soul, mind, and heart, and is the complete gentleman. 

The tree is known by its fruits." 

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THE REPORTER. 




We met to elect some one; but so eager were we all for the honor 
that, Avithout nominations, we voted, and each one received one vote, 
except Mr. Waller, who was president, and could not vote. No one 
was elected; yet as none were defeated no one was not elected, ex- 
cept Mr. Waller. So that I have the pleasure, ladies, of presenting 
to you the whole class as good, sterling, ladies' men. The pinnacle 
of our hope is that you will receive this, our public offer, in the 
same spirit that you have or will receive the private offers of many 
of our individual members. 

But, in the strictest sense of the possessive case, we have a Lady's 
man, Mr. Charles Keeler Canfield, our married man. When a man 
marries he is usually expected to settle down ; his preparatory work 
is then supposed to be complete and his life-labor then to begin. 
You have demonstrated by your example, Charles, that it is infinitely 
better for a young man to marry before he has commenced his 
studies. Oh ! fellow students ! What countless benefits and mani- 
fold good might have been ours had we sacrificed oui'selves on 
Hymen's altar ! Think only that we would have had no buttons to 
sew on, no stockings to darn, no beds to make, no washer-woman to 
pay, and no bad coffee or sour bread, and at once the vagrant vam- 
pires of regret will run rude ruin, and raise rare riot in your self- 
satisfied minds. Yet, perhaps, it was not your fault. Such things 
sometimes happen. We can never, Canfield, thank your wife too 
much for the care, oversight, and anxiety which she has saved us. 
Under her guardian care we doubted not your safety. No tempta- 
tions lured you into paths of sin and vice. No shutter, borne by 
weary hands, carried your besotted frame. No prying busy-body 
presumed, for Faculty promotion, to search your room at dead of 
night in quest of drunkenness. For this you have your wife to 
thank ; for this we thank her. , Take this thimble, for a little thumb, 
and give it to your better-half as an intimation of our gratitude 
and our sincerest wishes for an uninterrupted course of domestic 
felicity. 





^ry ■ 

f* PRESENTATIONSPEECH. 

Closely allied to, and often synonymous with, the Married man, is 
the Old man. Mr. Terence Jacobson, a Norwegian by birth, a Cos- 
mopolitan sojourner and guest, an Oxonian pedagogue, the great 
Western Biblical reformer, the hero of Harper's Ferry, the success- 
ful Staten Island navigator, is beyond doubt the old man of the 
class. Jake, you have all the accompaniments of riper years, and 
these have been to us inestimable blessings. How often have we 
fondly gathered around you to catch the words of wisdom which 
dropped as nimble and as numerous as the fairy child's toads ! 
This superiority in years, and consequent superiority in practical 
experience, held you not a recluse in the embrace of self, but right 
heartily did you enter into all the jural ramifications of our juvenile 
rampancy; for as "Waller poetically puts it : 

" Clouds of affection from our youthful eyes, 
Conceal'd that emptiness that age descries." 

For the laudable purpose of enhghtening your darkening optics, 
of enabling you to wear the semblance of a highly refined and edu- 
cated gentleman, and to start you staring, to note and enjoy the 
embarrassment caused thereby, we give to you these spectacles with 
the liveliest wishes for your welfare. 

As effect to cause, so ia the Old man connected with the Regular 
man. Besides which, our regular man, Mr. Lucien Wilson Doty, was 
associated with our old man in the character of the great Occidental 
evangelical debater, attracting the notice of Chicago and Cincinnati, 
by traversing their streets in heelless slippers, which thing he shall 
not have occasion to do, thanks to his lady, any more. Lucien ! 
Early one morning as we were fiercely cogitating to discover some- 
thing to say to and of you, we found, much to our surjDrise, your 
diary in Paradise. We propose to epitomize one day's record : 
" Rose betimes at 5 ; washed and dressed in 10 minutes ; devotions 
tm 5.20; a run till 5.30; read 'Life of Choate' till 6.30; break- 
fasted till 7 ; looked over morning's recitation till 7.35 ; went to 



40 THE REPORTER. 




chapel till 7.45 ; chapel till 8 ; recitation till 9 ; studied till 10.50 ; 
went to recitation till 11 ; recitation till 12 ; dinner till 12.30 ; base- 
ball till 1 ; walk down town for the mail (?) and back by 2 ; studied 
till 3.50 ; went to recitation till 4 ; recitation till 5 ; chapel till 5.15 ; 
supper till 5.45 ; exercised till 6 ; either loafed or went to prayer- 
meeting till 6.30 ; walked till 7 ; studied till 9 ; read ' Hazlitt's 
Table Talk' till 10 ; wrote diary till 10.15 ; devotions and asleep by 
10.30." This order is varied on the regular nights when he enjoys 
himself in ladies' society, and seeks his bed at 11.30 exactly, an horn- 
later. This speaks for itself and for your regularity, Lucien. The 
class, proud to recognize such abilities in one of their number, here- 
with present you this ruler, trusting that you will fill the measure of 
your days with satisfaction to yourself and credit to all. 

"We have another regular man, our Kegular Scientific — Mi\ James 
W. Piatt. Our friend James deserves especial praise. He is the 
first and only one who has passed through the entire four years of 
the regular Pardee Scientific Course. The Faculty and Ti'ustees 
will of course be proud of you, Jim, and say and do many jDretty 
things to you ; but we must not on that account shirk our duty. 
Your studies have had their proper effect upon you in rendering 
your senses wonderfully sharp and acute. These naturalists see 
more, hear more, smell more, taste more, and touch more delicately 
than any unsophisticated person could possibly imagine. One 
instance, James, will sufficiently illustrate your optical attainments. 
You were strolling leisurely along, and suddenly your whole atten- 
tion was directed to a diatomic plant some ten yards off. UjDon 
inquiry it appeared that you were watching the evolutions of a pre- 
dacious ichneumon preparing for a descent upon an innocent para- 
sitic aphis busily engaged in gormandizing the life-giving element 
of the plant. When the curfew crieth, the " wangdoodle" waileth, 
or the " hampus-rampus" roareth, the delicacy of thy senses causeth 
a poignancy of grief surpassed only by their astuteness. This bot- 
tle contains a preserved cockroach which the class gives to you. 




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believing that its habits will often call to 'mind the pilfered cup- 
boards of earlier years, and hoping that, unlike it, your deeds will 
not be such as to cause you to " love darkness rather than light." 

The idea of an old man always associates with it in our mind the 
idea of street corners, hotel porches, club-rooms, shady nooks, ease- 
giving swings and sedans, the resorts of loafers. Have we a loafer ? 
There were several candidates for this position and quite an exciting 
election. We had good reasons for believing that some of the 
fraternities had effected a coalition to elect one of their number, but 
they failed in accomplishing the object of their nefarious negotia- 
tions, and the honor was bestowed upon Mr, David Jewett Waller, Jr. 
The amount of loafing, Dave, that you can take charge of is truly 
wonderful. The fame of your exploits in masticating loaves pre- 
ceded your advent into Easton and your connection with our vener- 
able Alma Mater. For immediately upon your arrival the mutually 
beneficent organization of associated Bakers and Barbers, -oassed the 
following : "Resolved, That we learn with pleasure of the intention 
of Mr. Waller to dwell in our midst, and while we commiserate our 
afflicted brothers in Bloomsburg we can but congratulate ourselves 
upon this prospect of an immense increase in the demand for our 
labor." Several letters from persons who have boarded you are in 
my possession, and all alike complain of the remarkable increase in 
their baker's bills during your stay with them. Receive this loaf as a 
recognition of your powers by the class, and if you keep on friendly 
terms with it, the good goddess Panacea will eversmile upon you. 

We have, however, a bona fide loafer — the gentleman of the 
class, Mr. James Patterson Ziegler, of Mount Joy, Lancaster 
Co., Pa. Jim, if you were not born with a silver spoon in your 
mouth, you were born with all those qualities of mind and body 
which would best fit you for taking advantage of such a preg- 
nant prognostication. You should have had an unlimited income, 
so that all those extreme gentlemanly quahties might have had full 
swing, without placing you in embarrassed circumstances. Being 



42 THEEEPORTER. 




thus freed from the painful necessity of labor, and consequently of 
developing unnatural powers, you would have had leisure, unlimited 
by the provoking demands of neglected duty, to enter fully into all 
the recondite mysteries of spiritualism and the inexplicable enigmas 
of clairvoyants. You have abilities. Jim, which, if directed aright, 
would confer upon you "crimson glory and undying fame." Your 
power of grasping and handling psychological and other intricate 
theological questions, point to the ministry as your field of action. 
Your skill in giving excuses, at which you were never known to fail, 
as our worthy professor remarked, and your decided disputatious- 
ness, single out the law as your proper pursuit. Your dexterity in 
hoodwinking all classes and conditions of beings, and forcing them 
to place full and implicit confidence in all you say and do, would 
presage for you an enviable success as a physician. As we are sure, 
Jim, that you will always be able to get along, no matter what you 
do, or whether you do nothing at all, we bestow upon you this laurel 
crown. You can thus claim to have been laureated, the Faculty to 
the contrary notwithstanding. 

A diametrical contrariety exists between a loafer and a lean man. 
Who ever saw lean loafers loitering languidly along, like lazy lovers ? 
Lean and lazy are antagonistic ideas. This, in a measure, favors 
our lean man, Mr. Joseph Johnson Hardy. " Yon !" Hardy, " hath 
lean and hungry look ; he thinks too much ; such men are dan- 
gerous." Mindful of your safety. Ladies, we have guards placed 
who will protect you from all danger. Joe ! you have never gazed 
upon the beautiful orb of day, or admired the varied scenes of 
Nature, except as a lean man, yet upon none did you lean ; but 
your greatest ambition has been to have all lean upon you, never 
cautioning them of the leanness of the support. Joseph ! thou art 
the very incarnation of a critic ; captious, caviling, and petulant, 
thou hast no equal. An examination of the diagnoses of eminent 
^sculapians convinced us that you were diseased. To cure you, 
then, occupied our whole thought. We concluded that if we could 





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but make you laugh you would grow fat. To accomplish this, we 
spent much time in collecting suitable jokes, and here we have them 
collected in a box, which we give to you, confident that by using 
them you will, in a short time, be "fair, fat, and forty." 

We might have cured Mr. Hardy in a diiferent way. We might 
have placed him in the delightful company of our Joker, Mr. John 
Eussel Youngman, but we feared his constitution would break 
under such rigid jesting. Our friend John is very facetious. John, 
if Hobbes is right in his definition of laughter, either you are a very 
superior person or your conceptions are outrageously deceptive. 
My friends! it don't amaze me that such streams of "concordia 
discors" should flow from such a prim, nice, unassuming young man 
as you see before you. Do not, however, think that he descends to 
punning. His is that superior wit which elevates and refiiies, while 
it imparts life and vigor to the mental organism, jaded by its con- 
stant exertions. In the "double-entente," the burlesque and the 
sarcasm " that sparkles while it wounds," his inimitable talents best 
display themselves. His fame has gone abroad, as will be seen 
from the following letter, which he received from IVIi'. Harrison, 
agent for the sale of the "Celebrated Compound Concentrated 
Catholicon" for the State of Pennsylvania, and which, with his per- 
mission, we will read : 

Phil , May 2Ut, 1870. 
Mr. J. E. Youngman : 

SiK, — I propose to take a trip through the state this summer, and 
wish to procure the services of a Merry Andrew. Knowing that 
you would soon be released from your College duties, and having 
the fullest assurance from both Mr. Van Amburgh and Messrs. Carn- 
cross and Dixie, that you wei'e an excellent and zealous zany, I 
hastened to wi'ite to you. I am willing to give you your board, all 
the almanacs and comic newspapers, and one-fourth of what I make 
on the bottles, in exchange for your services. Address soon 

Benjamin Haekison, M.D., 

No. 87 tSoutJl 5lh St. 




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The class, Russel, appreciating your powers and judging tlie 
probable effect upon your future career, deemed it prudent to 
advise you to cultivate sobriety, and to further this they have 
bestowed upon you this pickle. 

Not far enough removed from the idea of a loafer is the idea of a 
base-ball player ; besides, as we are situated upon this terraqueous 
ball, expected to bawl for all to hear, it is but just that we should 
have a ball man. No one would presume to think of any one as our 
ball man except Mr. Joseph Henry Brensinger. Joe ! you have 
been called "Eeliable"; though, to tell you the truth, the title is any- 
thing but complimentary. If you had been but a thing, of you, we 
would have said no-thing. The great efforts you have made to 
sustain the dignity of the College nine, as well as our class nine, 
victorious so often, and mainly by your pre-eminence, demand this 
public recognition of our gratitude, as well as some token by which 
posterity may be apj)rised of it. We determined upon this peri- 
spherical article, known in common parlance as a ball, as the fittest 
gift. Its periphery and diameter are according to the regulation 
requirements, while it bears upon its perimeter the significant 
words: "Fidissimus me habet." Your past history, Joe, shows 
three successive eras of successful ball-handling — as a printer, as 
an athlete, and as a soldier. Ladies ! " Five balls have pierced that 
noble breast, but — they ivere codfish balls !" " You see you can't most 
always tell when you least expect it most." 

By contiguity in place, whether we call it one of the primary laws 
of association with the many, or of suggestion with Dr. Brown, or 
of conception with Mr. Haven, it matters not, a ball always brings 
to our minds the idea of a belle. It is perfectly natural, then, since 
we have a ball-man, that we should have a bell-man, and here he is, 
in the person of Mr. Jonathan Emmert, of Benevola, Md. During 
our Freshman year, Jonathan, you undoubtedly "bore the bell" in 
our class. In the second year, unfortunately, you "lost the bell" by 
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However, in the third year, you " rang the bell " of the College, and 
have continued till now to execute the duties of that office with 
remarkable regularity, though justice compels us to say that we 
often had " to shake the bells" to arouse you from your endeavors 
" to bell the cat," in the shape of some abstruse metaphysical inves- 
tigations. Your fast faithfulness, and your proneness to promptness 
in the discharge of duties, merits our admiration, and makes you 
worthy " to bear away this bell," whose tiny tintinnabulations, we 
trust, will often lead your mind back to the pleasing associations of 
your College life. 

From time immemorial it has been noticed that the dandy follows 
the belle, and why should we change the revered custom. Have we 
not then some person fitted to fill that position ? No nice young 
man ? The heart of our worthy Master of Ceremonies yearned to 
be so considered, but the class thought differently and decided in 
favor of Mr. William Gemmill. Now, Mr. Gemmill, in appearing 
before this audience, do not make extra exertions to appear fine, 
though your not having an opportunity of speaking debars you 
from making the fullest display of your finical inclinations. We 
can say for you, however, that you are more spruce than foppish; 
yet we think that outward circumstances, rather than your own 
disposition, tended to this result. As a last counsel and sad warn- 
ing the class give you this coxcomb, in order that in after years it 
may be a perfunctory admonitor cautioning you of the danger of 
imitating its emblematic peculiarities. 

As species to genus, so is the intensive belle related to the exten- 
sive dancer. Mr, James Hervey Wright, of Chanceford, York Co., 
Pa., has been unanimously pronounced the best and most extensive 
dancer in the class. Hervey! when we have praised you for the 
agility, grace, and ease of your motions, we have little thought of 
the long weary years of patient persevering practice that were 
necessary to make you such an adept. The rude rollicking of rural 
regimen made the fjalop your favorite, though in speaking yoit, as 




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the Engiishman would say, put " li'l" in it and performed it upon the 
back of a plough-horse. When you came to College you began to 
consult your ease, and then the polka was praised by you, though 
you always said it was "poker'' you preferred; at this, not fully under- 
standing you, we were between the Scylla of tears and the Charyb- 
dis of laughter. When you had acquired for yourself the Senior's 
dignity, and had laid aside that natural admiration of gaudy colors 
for a true delight in softer, milder hues, a flaunty show of glaring- 
glow called from you in disgust the exclamation, " Eed ! Oh ! Ah !'' 
(redowa), which showed at once the high culture of your aesthetic 
nature and the rapid progress of your pedestal accomplishments. 
As a token of our appreciation of your remarkable skill in this art, 
we have selected this little work entitled, " The Dancer's Assistant," 
and we believe that by a proper sttidy of its contents you will be 
able to whirl through all the intricacies of the Chanceior d-waUs{z). 

But what would balls, belles, or dancers be without music, since it 
alone "has charms to sooth the savage breast?" What can the class 
of '70 do in the music line ? Mr. William Shippen Roney is the piper 
of the class. Will ! there is no use in your denying it, you use the 
2Jipe more than any of your classmates. During your whole course 
you have been noted as an inveterate smoker. So far has your 
reputation extended that even our Professor has been known to cite 
you as an example of the injurious effects of that nauseous weed of 
which " the Devil sowed the seed." We can unhesitatingly say that, 
as true friends and warm wishers for your future well-being, we 
have frequently urged you to refrain from contact with that which, 
if persisted in, will certainly ruin your health and lay that fine, 
robust, manly form upon the languishing bed of sickness. As we were 
satisfied that no words of ours would sufiS.ce to draw you from your 
pipe, while the meagreness of your corporeality made it impossible 
for us to draw a pipe from you, we determined to give you an oppor- 
tunity to draw this pipe from us. We can only venture the hope 
that often in his sanctum, at Andalusia College, the Professor, in the 




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midst of the fumes of the narcotic in it, "will hold in memory his 
College days. 

In saying that Mr. Roney was the piper of the class, the whole 
truth respecting the musical capacities of the class was not told, for 
did you not hear the soothing melody and rhythmical cadence of the 
Heroic of our Poet ? Yes ! Mr. Horace Roland, you are one of 
" those unfortunate individuals whom nature has made poets." 
Everything is done by you in the strictest poetic manner. Pressed 
for plain j)rose, you are placed in a preposterously peculiar predica- 
ment. You talk, sleep, study, walk the campus at night, and eat 
shad at breakfast in the most poetical manner imaginable. Are not 
the distinguishing peculiarities of the true j)oet so unmistakably 
stamped upon every lineament of his countenance, and in the extra- 
ordinary symmetrical ordonnance of his contour, that you are forced 
to admit the truth, " Poeta nascitur non fit ?" To mention any con- 
siderable number of this individual's idiosyncrasies — and what true 
poet has them not in abundance ? — time will not suffice. He grows 
inspired, however, not on the summit of the Aonian Mount, but at 
the base of the "hill of life." This little vial, containing concen- 
trated essence of Hellebore, mixed with Poppy-juice, we give to you 
with the request that you use it whenever 

"Moon-struck madness, moping melancholy," 

hypochrondria, or ,insanity, attempts to lead you in the path beaten 
by so many of your predecessors. 

However inconsistent it may seem, the character about to be 
introduced has made more music, though of a peculiar kind, than 
any other member of the class. Mr. Samuel Huntzinger Kaercher 
has been named as the Tutor of the class. It may seem rather 
singular, Sam, that we should select you as our instructor, yet it is 
undoubtedly true that you have tutored more than we. You were 
elected unanimously, and no wonder, for {teat (Lat. que) yap) you 
have the essentials in a pre-eminent degree; severely conscientious in 




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the discharge of duty; anxious to put forth superhuman endeavors 
to discover crime ; and, though young, crafty in unravelling par- 
tially disclosed mysteries, and remarkably adroit in eliciting infor- 
mation by ingenious insinuations or querulous questionings. You 
have disjolayed your tutoring abilities on several occasions. By 
roaming at night disguised, you have been the cause of Freshman 
fears. In consideration of your valuable instruction, we, your 
dutiful pupils, preserst you with this article, known at sight as a 
most necessary appendage to the complete outfit of a student. The 
Horn! It has often been your companion, Sammy! If it would 
but speak, what strange adventures, startling tales, fierce encounters, 
and narrow escaj)es could it narrate ! Oh ! Horn ! the ruthless hand 
of authority has attempted to darken the sky of thy glory. The 
glorious " Sun of Liberty" crossed thy path annuaUy, and made it 
radiant, but thy course has been changed, and hereafter nothing- 
save fitful meteoric flashes will serve to lighten the dull concave, 
unless thy patrons prove true and permit thee to enjoy the brilliant 
light of the bright orb that traverses the "hallowed" November 
sky. Students of Lafayette ! to you we commit this responsibility. 
Neglect not to perform this duty. Take it, Sam, and may its 
brightness be a symbol of thy future. 

We have just presented the idea of an uncivil tutor engineering- 
affairs for himself ; we have now to present our civil engineer, Mr. 
William Gray Heller, with this signal staff, symbolical of his profes- 
sion. Bill! you were particularly happy in the choice of your 
calling. That eagle eye, that steady nerve, that indomitable will, 
bespeak for you a glorious future. One requisite, however, is want- 
ing- : you can't swear hard enough. It is utterly useless to even 
think of becoming a successful engineer if you can't emphasize in 
that way. It won't do, Bill, to say ''Gosh dast it," or "Gosh hang it," 
or any of those milder colloquial expletives. You must come out 
stronger. We need not be very anxious about you, however, as jon 
can, with a very little practice, become an expert. Our friend 




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William has sliown his talent by a recent discovery of a standard 
by which landscape gardeners can lay out footpaths. He i-easoned 
thus. The curve is the most perfect line. Hogarth's line of beauty 
was a ciu've line. Man is the most perfect animal. Man stands 
upon an arch, a curve. Will he then walk a straight line? Of 
course not. This standard is to be the equation of the average of 
a number of lines made by different persons in going to a fixed 
point. This grand truth, when known and appreciated by the 
world, will alone crown with glory and honor thy head. Oh ! 
William Gray! take and stick to this stick, don't peg down, keep 
level, mind your sights, and you will have at last a safe transit. 

Associated with our topographer as fellow-worker and friend, is 
our Long man, Mr. Frank Hammond Piatt. Several reasons, which 
need not be mentioned, point to the aptness of applying to you, 
Frank, Washington Irving's simile of the tall masculine tree and 
the delicate feminine vine. Make it rather a lopped bean-pole, 
standing apart in its manly strength, and giving support to the 
legumenous butter-bean. A prospective furnishes a picture of 
beauty and rural happiness. A tall spare-looking man, seated on 
the veranda of a rustic cottage, his Teutonic consort rendering 
him happy by ingenuous confidences and practical exhibitions of 
affection, while the dusky servant busies himself in obeying his 
master's frequent order, "Zwei lager for two." Such a prospect 
ought to rouse all the dormant enei'gies of your nature, and lead 
you on to higher resolves and nobler endeavors. To encourage and 
aid you as true sympathizing friends, the class give you this ring, to 
grace your lady's hand, wishing you all joy and prosperity. 

Who can think of a long man without also entertaining the idea of 
a short man ? Our short man is Mr. Alexander Hamilton Sherrerd. 
Your shortness, EUick, favors you since you have no difficulty in 
passing for a mino(e)r, which is of immense advantage when travel- 
ling. You will be one of those square, fat, jolly, aldermanic fellows, 
whose sole object is to get as much enjoyment from the pleasures of 




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this life as possible. You have frequently brightened our College 
days by your sparkling wit. Your jokes, however, have first to be 
explained, and then acted out, before fully appreciated. You would 
have been the class jester had not the jovial joker, John, received 
more votes. You ought to be prosperous and rich since you can 
look upon the scene of your future labors and say, " 'Tis(a)niine." 
In short, short one, if you don't cut short certain little irregularities 
you will at last fall short, though you will do that at any rate, for 
" can'st thou add one cubit to thy stature ?" The class presents you 
with this bag of shorts, and hopes that you will strive to be unlike 
it in its relation to the coarser bran, and aim at a point far above 
mediocrity. 

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have gone over "the long and the 
short" of the class, and yet have not given presents to all its 
members. Your humble servant is the only exception, and for 
very good reasons will remain the exception. It would not be 
seemly for me to compliment and say nice things about myself 
before such an audience. Moreover, self-praise produces a very dis- 
agreeable effect, and a very highly esteemed Professor has impressed 
us with the policy of waiting for others to sound our praise. 

The next presentation will be to you all, and we doubt not will be 
more acceptable than any previous one. It will be in the form of 
one of the most delightful of our orchestra's performances. 





CHARLES K. CANFIELD. 

"When the Hebrew children were about to graduate from the 
school in the wilderness, in which they had been disciplined for 
forty long- years, they became aware, for the first time, of the debt 
of gratitude which they owed to Moses, their teacher. Not until 
called to bid him a last farewell, did they learn fully to ai^preciate 
him. They were about to cross the river which should mark a new 
era in their history. No longer were they to receive their bread 
gratuitously from heaven, but must earn it, like the rest of man- 
kind, by the sweat of their brow. New fields of activity were to be 
opened up ; new conquests and triumphs, new trials and defeats 
awaited them. The long-sought land of promise was, after all, a 
land of work and war. As they stood thus on the banks of the 
Jordan, mourning over the separation from their teacher, how 
analagous their situation to the one which we now occupy. We 
have come to the very brink of that unseen river which must soon 
separate us from our Alma Mater. Just beyond its further banks 
lie the fields of active life, diverse as the persons who are to occupy 
them, and , all chequered with their paths of duty. Long and hope- 
fully have we looked forward to that promised land, and now that 
we have come to its nearest boundary, it is fitting that we pause 
ere we pass into it, and, while we pay a parting tribute to old 
Lafayette, ask ourselves whether we are prepared to meet the foe, 
which sooner or later we shall find marshalled on life's battle-field. 
We can do no better, on this occasion, than consider briefly a 

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portion of the advice which, on that other occasion, God gare to 
Joshua. The advice to which I refer reads thus : " Only be thou 
strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do accord- 
ing to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee : turn 
not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest pros- 
per whithersoever thou goest." Joshua i., 7. 

Doubtless, the strength here referred to is moral strength, but 
what are its analogies ? To be strong physically, is to be vigorous 
and hale. Strength implies vitality. The oaken beam is strong, 
only because it retains some of the vitality which its roots drank in 
from the mountain side. Our- minds are strong just in proportion 
as they are animated and vitalized. Strong intellects may be slow, 
but never sluggish. 

What is moral strength but to have all our moral faculties keenly 
alive, and to be quickened in the inner man ? It is not simply 
restraining from vice ; it is bringing into requisition all those vigor- 
ous and active qualities of manhood which were never made to lie 
dormant. 

The true development of moral, like physical power, consists in 
exercise. Moral strength is the momentum acquired by doing good. 
The puny child, by suitable labor, gTows into the stalwart man ; so 
the moral faculties grow strong by exercise in the right. The arm 
unused becomes powerless and soon withers and droops ; a faculty 
of the mind unemployed becomes enfeebled ; but he who neglects to 
develop his higher nature, will not only find it weakened, but the 
avenues of approach will be opened to corruption, and before he is 
aware the stealthy serpent vice will creep into his soul. We read of 
many physical and intellectual giants, but how few that are strong 
in heart ! And why ? Because man seeks to cultivate his physical 
and intellectual, but leaves his moral nature a prey to inactivity, 
which is the parent of disease and decay. 

No moral powers can be strong when they are festering with dis- 
ease. Even the seeds of corruption, though unseen by mortal eyes. 




CHAPLAIN'S ADDRESS, 



will, like the roots of thistles and vile weeds in a field of flowers, be 
ever springing up to choke and weaken all that is beautiful, and 
true, and good. Moral corruption is the worm that gnaws the roots 
of manhood's tree, and saps it of its strength. 

There is another essential to moral power. It is novirishment. 
It was food for his spiritual nature that Christ meant when he said, 
" I have meat to eat that ye know not of." John iv., 32. If we 
would be spiritually strong we must feed on the word of God, which 
word is milk for babes and meat for strong men. That our moral 
strength decay not, we must make use of all the means of grace 
which God has given us. Prayer is as necessary for the soul as food 
for the body. There is a longing within every breast which can 
only find satisfaction in God. The voices of the soul cry from 
thirst, and they can only be answered by the " water of life." We 
hunger, by the very constitution of our immortal natures, and our 
spiritual appetites give no peace till we eat that " bread which com- 
eth down from heaven." The means are within our power to attain 
these ends, and so become strong according to the fullness of human 
strength. 

"Only be thou strong and very courageous." If ever there is need 
of courage out of actual danger, it is when, looking down the plains 
of life's uncertain conflict, you are unable to distinguish danger 
from safety. Events are about to transpire whose success no human 
foresight can calculate. Courage is the armor which enables you 
successfully to meet them. It is the essential concomitant of success. 
No shuddering, half-dismayed sj^irit can expect to succeed in life's 
great battle. Manly fortitude, single-handed, sometimes overcomes 
hosts of enemies. Bravery, fortitude, valor, are all commendable, 
but moral courage is the noblest of them all. Courage to do the 
right, under all circumstances, is more difficult to attain than the 
physical fortitude to meet a regiment of foes in open battle ; but if 
its possession is more difficult, its value is more transcendent. 
Even though we fail in the efl'ort, the sting of reproach is taken 




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away by the consciousness that we dared to attempt what was right 
and noble. 

Do we ever think that moral strength and courage have anything 
to do with our abihty to observe as well as to do what is right ? The 
Scripture tells us so. " Be thou strong and very courageous that 
thou may est observe to do according to all the law." To one weak 
in faith and faltering in courage, the keeping of the law is a burden- 
some task ; to one strong and courageous, though unable perfectly 
to keep it, trying is not irksome. How provident that for each duty 
there are corresponding means of fulfillment ! While God requires 
man to keep his commands, he gives him both strength and courage; 
and could he use them as not abusing them, temptations might 
be as numerous as sands beside the sea, and they would only cause 
his armor of defence the brighter to shine. 'Twas by keeping these 
weapons unimpaired by the rust of human passions, that God's 
incarnate Son was never known to yield a victory to sin. Oh ! who 
would not be like him, that he might " observe to do according to 
all the law ?" 

It is not sufficient to keep God's law occasionally. Steadfastness 
is necessary to prosperity. " Turn not from it to the right hand or 
to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest." 
How many fail in life's mission, because they think that a few noble 
and charitable deeds will suffice to carry them to the end of earth's 
journey, forgetting that of doing good there should be no end. 

The law of God is a pathway leading always to success, and he 
who would walk in it must neither stop, nor turn to the right or to 
the left. To the right are the thorns and briars of disobedience, to 
the left are the quicksands of dishonor. Duty is a constant com- 
panion, and ever and anon whispers with the gentle voice of inspira- 
tion, " This is the way, walk ye in it." Isaiah xxx., 21. But more 
than aU there is a hand, a pierced hand, still fresh with blood from 
Calvary's cross, that reaches down from heaven, and helps over the 
arduous places in the way all those that grasp it ; yea, all the weak ^ 

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CHAPLAIN'S ADDRESS. 




are lifted above the obstacles which they are unable to overcome, 
and so are brought on their way, which grows broader, and easier, 
and more beautiful, as they approach its glorious end. 

Classmates, the exercises of to-day will soon be over, our College 
duties will soon be done ; but when their memory shall have faded 
away, may you not forget the counsel which God gave to Joshua, 
ere he crossed the Jordan, " Only be thou strong and very courage- 
ous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which 
Moses my servant commanded thee : turn not from it to the right 
hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou 
goest." 

Do you see the leaves on that tree, how they all are united through 
one common trunk, and draw their nourishment from the same 
common sources ? But when the autumn frosts return, the wind 
shall scatter them into a thousand pathways. When once they 
leave the parent tree, who can tell where each may light ? So it 
shall be with us. Though the same cherishing hand has dealt out to 
us our portion of knowledge, no mortal can teU in what diverse situ- 
ations we shall use it. Like the leaves, some adverse gale from ill- 
fortune's quarter may put us down in ungenial climes, 'mid darkness 
and discouragement, and sadness and sorrow be our lot. If such 
should be, how we shall need to be " strong and very courageous." 

Let us, then, put on all the strength which God has given us ; let 
us summon all the moral courage which mortals can command, and 
let us go forth, like strong men armed, to lay claim to our portion in 
the promised land of active life, upon whose confines we are now 
about to enter. With our armor bright and truth as our standard, 
it will be noble to battle for the right. Oh ! that we might all 
acknowledge the same Captain in life's great struggle. Then cer- 
tain victory would be held up as the same glorious reward to us 
all. 

With strength of principle, and our hearts filled with love to God 
and man, what a power for good in the world our little band might 




THE REPORTER, 



become. Who could tell what torches of reformation, to light up 
this dark world, we might enkindle ? Aye ! who could say but that 
the fires we might kindle would burn till the end of time, and on the 
Judgment day would light up full many a face with radiant joy? 
Classmates, shall this be our destiny ? Would to God it might, but 
alas for fallen human nature ! how few of us will ever even resolve 
to make it so ; and how few that make the resolution will resolve it 
otherwise than in their own strength. " I can do all things through 
Christ which strengtheneth me," said Paul. How glorious would it 
be to be able to do all things, and to come off conquerors and more 
than conquerors in this worldly conflict ; and then to meet, on that 
great reunion day, at the right hand of the throne of God, and 
there, as one unbroken band, to be,, in the language of our motto, 
" 'AdeA^ot d'la rov aiGJvog." 





ATiOW. 



W. S. HONEY. 

In the old Bohemian town of Prague stands the tomb of Tycho 
Brahe, the father of modern astronomy, and upon it are inscribed 
the words, " Esm potius quam videri," be rather than seem. This 
motto, so pregnant with true counsel, and so wide in its ajoplication, 
is yet so often \dolated, that 

" This one maxim is a standing nile, 
Men are not what they seem." 

Not only is the mask of deception worn before the world, but even 

from themselves do men hide the innermost workings of their heart, 

and interpose between the mind and soul the visor of deceit. To 

all men, indeed, but to us particularly, who have yet to make our 

trial stejjs upon the strand of life, it behooves that not only the 

appearance, but the intention be fair, and especially that we de_ 

ceive not ourselves as to the judiciousness of our aims, or our ability 

to execute them. 

On this ground upon which we stand, for four years have we been 

preparing to meet the shock and encounter of life, and now. Time, 

the ruthless consumer of all things, armed with his keen scythe, and 

having eaten his children as fast as they were born, is about to cast 

us upon 

"The world 

All ear and eye, M'ith such a stupid heart 

To interpret ear and eye, and such a tongue 

To blare its own interpretation. " 



* Tills Oration was received too late for insertion at its proper place. 
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THE REPORTER. 



Upon its tender mercies are we thrown, and by ourselves must we 
either rise or fall. As the rising sun lightens up the horizon with 
roseate hue, and shadows forth the coming splendor of midday, so 
is shadowed forth the future to those about to spring upon the great 
eternal battle-field. Fancy paints triumphs and trophies, laurels and 
bays, upon the rosy vail that floats between them and the great 
unknown. But brave thoughts and high aspirations are to noble 
achievements only as the acorn to the oak, containing, it is true, the 
germ of their existence, but, if left unnurtured and uncared for 
upon a rocky soil, they slowly waste away and become as if they had 
not been. The world, so quick to see faults and fi-ailties, sees not, 
or notices only with a laugh of scorn and derision, the bravest inten- 
tions, unless accompanied by corresponding deeds. To be about to 
be is well, to be is better ; or, as a gifted American author has said, 
" Posse must be put into a pipe, and blown into an illustrious bub- 
ble, before the world perceives the esse." 

If of us our college training has developed nothing but book- 
worms ; if we are mere imbibers of other men's lore and learning, 
and, like the sluggish and stagnant canal, give up only what we have 
received, it has failed in its great object. To become acquainted 
with the great actions of past heroes and leaders, to imbibe 
the wisdom of by-gone sages, to drink deep draughts from the 
never-failing wells of science and art, are grand achievements ; but 
if not to these we have added the power of thinking, yea of acting 
for ourselves, our education has but just commenced. 

" Show me the man 
Who, leaving God, and nature, and himself, 
Sits at the feet of masters, stuflfs his brain 
"With maxims, notions, usages, and rules, 
And yields his fancy up to leading-strings, 
And I shall see a man who never did 
A deed worth doing." 




TREE ORATION. 




Around us and about us, from every nook of nature and of life, 
start up the food for never-dying thought, whose vv^or kings may 
startle a world and shake the earth to its very center, and from every 
class and condition of life comes up the cry for action. If we pass 
over the journey of this world, enriching only the minds of ourselves, 
and dropping no crumb of good by the way-side, we might as well 
have been a chi-ysalis and died in the cocoon of our own spinning. 
He who measures time by the ticking of the clock, or the years of 
his life by the summers and winters that have passed over his head, 
has counted wrongly. It is by our deeds and thoughts that we 
should measure the flight of time. 

"He most lives 
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." 

The soldier, from dawn to eve of the battle-day, lives a whole life, 
or, we bhould rather say, has condensed into one day's action the 
experience of ages of a more sluggish life. In itself, a single thought 
may contract into one short moment the deeds of a lifetime, and a 
single deed may leave its lasting fruit, for good or evil, for pleasure 
or sorrow, upon a long life. 

To-day we plant upon this thrice-revered soil, hallowed by so 
many almost sacred reminiscences, this tree, as the connecting link 
which binds into one chain the hearts and hands, the minds and 
feelings, of the Class of '70. We have chosen from among trees the 
maple, as the fit emblem of that pure and abiding spirit of friend- 
ship toward each other, and of good will toward their fellow-man, 
which we trust pervades the heart and soul of each one of us. 
Shapely and comely above all trees, yet strong in its interlacing 
branches mutually sustaining one another, with its manifold leaves 
and buds, and beautiful green, with its shade, so grateful to the 
weary traveller worn by the heat of the noonday sun, it stands 
pre-eminent, the beautiful among trees. 

As first the little germ, fallen from its parent stock, and nourished 




THE REPOETEK. 




by the gentle rains and vivifying light of the sun, sprang into exist- 
ence, a tender plant struggling with adverse storms and winter's 
cold for its life, so started into being the Class of '70. As it has 
gi'own and increased in strength, until now it has become so 
vigorous that it can be transplanted from the soil which has 
nurtured it from infancy, and can uphold itself, so, as a class, 
through four long years, we have been drawing closer and closer 
the bonds which bound us to each other, and, we hope, have in- 
creased in mental strength, and in attainments which will fit us for 
the great conflict in which we are about to engage. 

As we look back over the years spent together so pleasantly, 
we see lights and shadows, trials and joys, closely interwoven in 
the warp and woof of our College life; but as we gaze, the shadows 
grow fainter and fainter, and at last entirely fade away, and 
naught but the hght remains. In after years we will form other 
friendships and connections, but none which will ever take the 
place of that so firmly fixed by our years of communion here, so 
enduringly rooted by the participation in the same joj^s and sorrows, 
in the same struggles and successes. In a short time we leave this 
loved spot, some of us probably never to return ; j)erhaps, as a class, 
never more to meet again. We will be scattered far and widely 
over the fair face of the earth, some of us never again to join heart 
and hand in the grasp of friendship. But a few flying moments, 
and the Class of '70 will be among the things that were, except 
in the hearts and souls of its members, as at least the one bright 
spot in memory. In their innermost souls will be embalmed a 
precious casket, containing the sacred reminiscences of happy days 
gone by. 

If, in years to com'e, we return to this hallowed place, the first 
spot we visit will be the maple which bears the name and glory of 
'70. In its welfare we will ever feel a lasting interest, as almost the 
sole memento which will remind future classes and generations that 
such a class existed. 




TREE ORATION. 



\ 



In Spain they have an old proverb, that " He who plants an olive 
tree leaves an inheritance to his children." We, more selfish than 
the Spaniards, by planting our tree, leave an everlasting inheritance 
of remembrance to ourselves, and only a slight reminder to future 
classes that we were. Soon the places which have known us so long 
will know us no more, and to the class of '71 will be delegated the 
honors and dignity of Seniorism. 

In the summer of life, when j^rosperous and full of joy, let us 
remember that the winter soon follows, and may leave us, like our 
maple, stripped of leaves and to all api:)earance dead and fruitless, 
and so, warned by our emblem, we may turn our thoughts to higher 
and better things. In the dreary winter, when stricken with the 
weight of sorrow and trouble, we may remember that though we 
may be like the bare and leafless maple, yet soon the pleasant spring 
time will come to reinvigorate us with its soft showers and life-giving 
sunshine ; and so, again, remembering our symbol upon the heights 
of College Hill, we may not be cast down by despair. 

And now, O classmates and comrades dear, unsustained by each 
other's cheer and comfort, we must travel the path of life, be it 
strewn with roses or with thorns, alone ; by our own unaided 
strength, must we succeed or fail. 

Life is before ye ! and as ye now stand 

Eager to spring upon the promised land, 

Fair smiles the way where yet your feet have trod, 

But a few light stejis upon a flowery sod ; 

Eound ye are youth's green bowers, and to your eyes, 

Tho' horizon's line but joint the earth and skies, 

Daring and triumph, pleasui-e, fame, and joy. 

Friendship unwavering, love without alloy. 

Brave thoughts of noble deeds, and glory won, 

Like angels, beckon ye to venture on. 




Life is before ye ! from the fated road 

Ye cannot ; turn, then, take ye up your load, 



THE EEPORTER. 



Not yours to tread or leave the unknown way; 
Ye must go o'er it, meet ye what ye may, 
Gird up your souls within you to the deed, 
Angels and fellow spirits bid ye speed ! 
What though the brightness wane, the pleasure fade, 
The glory dim ! Oh, not of these is made 
The awful life that to your trust is given, 
Children of God, inheritors of heaven. 



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In life's untrodden path we stand, 

And cast a hopeful eye 
To Providence, whose mighty hand 

Shapes destinies on high. 

May all life's ways, as yet unseen, 

Like Canaan meet our sight, 
Through fertile fields all robed in green, 

Conduct us to delight. 

But that the Lord would make us strong. 

We will the rather ask, 
And give us hearts to war with wrong. 

And courage for the task. 

'Tis good to battle for the right, 

With God's sure armor on; 
We know he'll help us in the fight, 

To conquer through his Son. 

And though for " Seventy's " band there bd 

No palms of earth's renown. 
May all in Heaven meet, where we 

Shall each receive the crown. 

God grant us all an entrance there. 

Beyond cold Jordan's shore, 
And then no starless crowns to wear. 

While " Brothers evermore. " 



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Names of Persons Associated with the Class, 

AT ANY TIME DURING- THE COURSE. 



W. B. ADAMSON, 

C. H. BALDWIN, 

J. V. BARE, 

J. H. BISSELL, 

J. H. BRENSINGER, 

E. BRYAN, 

R. W. D. BRYAN, 

C. K. CANFIELD, 

J. W. CLARK, 

N. H. CONE, 

ERANK DOREMUS, 

L. W. DOTY, 

J. EMMERT, 

W. S. EVANS, 

T. M. FARQUHAR, 

W. GEMMILL, 

S. J. GRUVER, 

J. A. HAND, 

J. J. HARDY, 

J. M. HARRIS, 

W. G. HELLER, 

T. JACOBSON, 



S. H. KAERCHER, 
W. S. KENNEDY, 
G. R. LATHROP, 
J. V. LONG, 

E. K. MEIGS, 
N. P. MOODY, 

D. G. E. MUSSELMAN, 
T. C. NELSON, 

F. H. PIATT, 
J. W. PIATT, 
F. S. RICE, 

C. H. RISK, 
H. ROLAND, 
W. S. RONEY, 

F. F. ROWLAND, 
M. P. SELTZER, 
A. H. SHERRERD, 

D. J. WALLER, Jk., 
F. J. WASHABAUGH, 
J. H. WRIGHT, 

J. R. YOUNGMAN, 
T. W. YOUNGMAN, 



J. P. ZIEGLER. 



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iTATlSTWi m ^fi. 



Number at Graduation, 19. 

Number on Entering, 42. 

Entered 2d Year, 4. 

Left College, 19. 

Entered Lower Classes, 6. 

Died, 1. 

Expelled, 1. 

Number Petitions sent to Faculty, 43; Number Granted, 17. 

Number conscientiously opposed to signing Petitions, 3. 

Age at Graduation— Oldest, 27 y. 4 mo. 20 d. 7 h. ; Youngest, 19 y. 4 m. 27 d. 
17 h. Total Age, 4 cen. 34 y. 10 m. 23 d. 14 h. Average Age, 22 y. 4 m. 29 d. 
15i^ h. 

Height — Longest, 6 ft. 1 in. ; Shortest, 5 ft. 5 in. Total Height, 6 poles, 6 yds. 
1 ft. 6 in. Average Height, 5 ft. 9-i"c,- in. 

Weight— Heaviest, 173 lbs.; Lightest, 118^ lbs. Total Weight, 1 ton, 7 hun. 
lOi lbs. Average Weight, 142 |f lbs. 

Length of Leg — Longest, 3 ft. \ in. ; Shortest, 2 ft. 5 in. Total Length, 3 rods, 
1 yd. 10^ in. Average Length, 2 ft. 8f in. 

Length of Arm — Longest, 2 ft. 7k in. ; Shortest, 2 ft. 2^ in. Total Length, 2 rods, 
8 yds. ft. 5f in. Average Length, 2 ft. 4f f in. 

Length of Foot — Longest, 11 in. ; Shortest, 9|^ in. Total, 5 yds. 1 ft. 2f in. 
Average Length, lO-j^iX/ in. 

Length of Thumb — Longest, 2^ in. ; Shortest, 2^^ in. Total Length, 4 ft. ^ in. 
Average Length, 2||- in. 

Length of Little Toe — Longest, 2 in. 2^ lines; Shortest, 1 in. 1^ lines. Total 
Length, 2 ft. 5 in. Average Length, 1 in. 5-i% lines. 

Number of Corns — Greatest, 12; Least, 0. Total, 76. Average, 4. 

Length of Transverse Axis of Mouth — Greatest, 3^ in. ; Least, If in. Total 
Length, 3 ft. 6| in. Average Length, 2-,^a% in. 

Number of Swimmers, 17. 

Number of Skaters, 17. 

Number Spectacled, 3. 

k Number having False Teeth, 3. 
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THE REPORTER. 



Number Bandy-legged, 1. 
Number Pigeon-toed, 2. 

Circumference of Head— Greatest, 1 ft. 11^ in.; Least, 1 ft. 9 in. Total, 2 
perches, 2 ft. 2^ in. Average, 1 ft. 10-^ in. 

Color of Hair— Brown, 13; Black, 2; Light, 2; Flaxen, 1; Auburn, 1. 
Curly Heads, 5. 

Color of Eyes— Blue, 8; Brown, 3; Gray, 6; Hazel, 1; Variable, 1; Green-eyed 
Monsters, 4. 
Classical, 14; Scientific, 5. 

Where Eooming— East College, 13; Blair Hall, 2; Martien Hall, 2; Newkirk 
Hall, 2. 

Number of Parents Living— Greatest, 2 ; Least, 1. Total, 35. Average, 1\^. 
Number of Grand-Parents Living— Greatest, 2; Least, 0. Total, 7. Average, -,\. 
Occupation of Fathers — Ministers, 3; Lawyers, 3; Physicians, 1; Gentlemen, 3; 
Farmers, 4; Insurance Agents, 1; Weavers, 1; Miners, 1; Iron Dealers, 1; Un- 
known, 1, 
Number of Brothers— Greatest, 7; Least, 0. Total, 46. Average, 2-,^ 
Number of Sisters— Greatest, 3; Least, 0. Total, 25. Average, 1-py. 
Distance from Home— Greatest, 850 m.; Least, ^ m. Total, 2,607^ m. Average, 
137-32, m. 

Number of Lady Acquaintances in Easton— Greatest, 120; Least, 2. Total, 576. 
Average, 30-;^. 
Female Suffrage— Pro, 5; Con, 11; "On the Fence," 2. 
Politics — Republicans, 12; Democrats, 7. 
States Eepresented— Pa.. 14; N. J., 3; Md., 1; 111., 1. 

Personal Habits— Lazy, 6; Neat, 8; Enthusiastic, 3; Eccentric, 1; Indpendent, 1. 
Subjects of Discipline — Reprimanded, 4; on Probation, 2; Suspended, 1. 
Whiskers— Thin kind, 7; Full, 2; Moustache, 2; Goatee, 1; Burnsides, 1; Prom- 
ising, 4; Presbyterians, 1; Microscopic, 1. 

Matrimonial Prospects — Married, 1; Engaged, 7; "Chances tip-top," 1; "Dim," 
1; Unsusceptible, 3; Susceptible, but Hopeless, 1; Never Exposed, 1; Exposed, 
but Escaped, 2; Heartless, 1; Uncertain, 1. 

Intended Occupations — Ministers, 6; Lawyers, 7; Tutors, 3; Teachers, 1; Min- 
ing Engineers, 2; Civil Engineers, 1. (One has " two irons in the fire.") 

Nick-Names — Loppy, Rasp, Francis Train, Lieutenant, Critic, Jim C, Kaph, 
Joe, Shat, Jake, Dunch, Jont Patcher, Major, Reliable, Ru.dy, Brenny, Joe, Toad, 
Jim, Huntz, Horry, Dave, Doc. Hervey, Bustor, Skinney, 'o 6s, Kleine Georg, 
Biancus, Bill, Silas, Jack. 






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RUSTEES. 



Hon. JAMES POLLOCK, LL. D., President Philadelphia. 

Key. S. M. ANDREWS, D. D., Seceetary Doylestown. 

Eev. SEPTIMUS TUSTIN, D. D Washington City. 

Rev. DAVID J. WALLER Bloomsbnrg. 

Rey. ROBERT HAMILL, D. D Boalsburg. 

WILLIAM C. LAWSON, Esq Milton. 

JAMES McKEEN, Esq Easton. 

MATTHEW HALE JONES, Esq Easton. 

McEVERS FORMAN, Esq Easton. 

Rey. SAMUEL F. COLT Towanda. 

Rey. AARON H. HAND, D. D Bloomsbury, N. J. 

Rey. WILLIAM C. CATTELL, D. D Easton. 

Hon. JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN Philadelphia. 

Rev. MILO J. HICKOCK, D. D Oxford, Ohio. 

A. PARDEE, Esq Hazleton. 

ALFRED MARTIEN, Esq Philadelphia. 

Rey. J. H. MASON KNOX, D. D Germautown. 

JOHN F. McCOY, Esq New York City. 

BARTON H. JENKS, Esq Philadelphia. 

THOMAS BEAVER, Esq Danville. 

JOSEPH H. SCRANTON, Esq Scrauton. 

JOHN WELLES HOLLENBACK, Esq Wilkesbarre. 

Hon. JAMES MORRISON HARRIS Baltimore, Md. 

Col. WILLIAM DORRIS, Jb Huntingdon. 

MORRIS PATTERSON, Esq Philadelphia. 

JOHN CUEWEN, M. D Harrisburg. 

WILLIAM ADAMSON, Esq Philadelphia. 



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REASURER. 



X Pkof. JAMES H. COFFIN Easton, Pa. 



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MeMBEI^ of the 'pACULTY. 

Kev. WILLIAM CASSADAY CATTELL, D. D., President, 
And Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy. 

TRAILL GREEN, M. D., LL. D., 

Adamson Professor of General and Applied Chemistry. 

JAMES HENRY COFFIN, LL. D., 

Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. 

FRANCIS ANDREW MARCH, A. M., 

Professor of the English Language and Comparative Philology. 

Ret. JOHN LEAMAN, A. M., M. D., 

Professor of Human Physiology and Anatomj'. 

Rev. JAMES READ ECKARD, D. D., 

Professor of Historj' and Rhetoric. 

Rev. LYMAN COLEMAN, D. D., 

Professor of Latin and of Biblical and Physical Geography, 

Rev. henry STAFFORD OSBORN, LL. D., 

Professor of Mining and Metallurgy. 

Rev. THOMAS CONRAD PORTER, D. D., 

Professor of Botany and Zoologj'. 

AUGUSTUS ALEXIS BLOOMBERGH, A. M., 
Professor of Modern Languages. 

HENRY FRANCIS WALLING, C. E., 

Professor of Civil and Topographical Engineering. 

ROBERT BA.RBER YOUNGMAN, A. M., 

Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. 




Professor of Phj'sical Culture, 




MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY. 



CHARLES HENRY HITCHCOCK, Ph. D., 

Lecturer on Geology and Mineralogy. 

SELDEN JENNINGS COFFIN, A. M., 

Adjunct Professor of Mathematics. 

JAMES W. MOORE, A. M., M. D., 

Adjunct Professor of Mechanics and Experimental Philosophy. 

EDWARD STEWART MOFFAT, A. M., M. E., 

Adjunct Professor of Mining and Metallurgy. 

JOHN BOYD GRIER, A. M., 

Tutor in Modern Languages. 

WALTER QUINCY SCOTT, A. B., 

Tutor in Ancient Languages. 

CHARLES McINTIRE, B. S., 

Assistant in Chemistry. 

ABRAM PASCHAL GARBER, B. S., 

Assistant in Natural History. 




SAMUEL L. FISLER, 

Superintendent of College Grounds 



W. L. BECHDOLT, 
Janitor. 






UNUS IN AMOBE, MORE, ORE, RE." 



#ffiars far t\it ^mxtnt ||eEr. 

PEESIDENT. 

WILLIAM KENNEDY, Esq Carlisle. 

VIOE-PKESIDENT. 

Peof. CHARLES ELLIOTT, D. D Chicago. 

TKEASUEEK. 

ELISHA ALLIS, Esq Easton. 

SECEETAET. 

Peok SELDEN J. COFFIN Easton. 

CLEEK. 

REUBEN HAINES Elkton, Md. 




The annual meeting is held on Tuesday afternoon of Oommencement week, at 
which an Oration and Poem are pronounced. The Association is composed of 
graduates, and such of their classmates who left College before graduation, and in 
good standing, as may have been elected. 

Subscriptions, confined to one hundred dollars each, to the fund for endowing 
an Alumni Professorship, have been made to the amount of $11,000, of which 
f 6,000 have been paid in. This is in addition to numerous gifts of larger sums, 
from members of the Association, to the general funds of the College. The recent 
eflfort to secure five thousand dollars for the erection of a Monument to commemo- 
rate the services of those who fell in the late war for the Union, is nearly complete. 

A Register of the post-office address of all who have been matriculated at Lafay- 
ette, is kept by the Secretary, who is anxious to receive early information of all 
changes, and also to be furnished with Biographical Sketches of all alumni, copies 
of their works, and their photographs, card size, to be preserved in the archives 
of the Association. 

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F. GUTELIUS President. 

G. K. McMUETRIE Vice-Peesident. 

JOHN MEIGS Reg. Secketabt. 

A. S. SWARTZ CoE. Secbetaet, 

WM. WIELY, Jb - Teeasueeb. 

O. J. HARVEY HisTOEiAN. 

A. S. SWARTZ, 1 T. ^ ^ oj m T • XT 

' I Poets for 3a Term, Junior Year. 

J. C. CRAWFORD, j 

H. P. GLOVER, I p^g^g ^^j. jg^ rpgj^^ ggjjjQj. Year. 

W. WIELY, Je., j 

J. A. Mcknight, ] r. + ^ o^ t^ t • ^ 

' L Orators for 3d Term, Jumor Year. 

J. E. WATKINS, j 

J. T. HOUSTON, I Orators for 1st Term, Senior Year. 

J. F. POLLOCK, J 

M.EMBERS. 

J. S. AXTELL Sulphur Springs, Ohio. 

L. H. BARBER Mifflinburg. 

M. H. BRADLEY Mercersburg. 

E. BRYAN Washington, N. J. 

A. BRYDEN Pittston. 

N. H. CONE Towsontown, Md. 

J. COWAN SadsburyYiUe. 

J. C. CRAWFORD Herrick. 

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THE REPOKTER. 




J. M. CRAWFORD Herrick. 

B. DOUGLASS, Je New York City. 

S. H. EASTON Belvidere, N. J. 

F. W. EDGAR Easton. 

T. McK. FARQUHAR Easton. 

W. S. FULTON Menittstown. 

H. P. GLOVER Hartleton. 

R GUTELIUS Mifflinburg. 

J. M. HARRIS Phillipsburg, N. J. 

0. F. HARVEY Wilkesbarre. 

O. J. HARVEY Wilkesbarre. 

R. M. HAYS Chambersbtirg. 

J. T. HOUSTON Olivesburg, Ohio. 

J. B. HUDSON Howard. 

W. ST. G. KENT Phillipsburg, N. J. 

D. B. KING .Mt. Pleasant. 

B. W. LEWIS Spring Hill. 

A. W. LONG Point Pleasant. 

J. McCARROLL ....". . .Claysville. 

C. McCAULEY Altoona. 

H. K. McClelland Gap. 

J. A. Mcknight Chambersburg. 

G. K. McMURTRIE Belvidere, N. J. 

W. McMURTRIE Belvidere, N. J. 

J. MEIGS Pottstown. 

F. T. OLDT New BerUn. 

W. B. OWEN Wysox. 

J. R. PAULL. Connellsville. 

J. F. POLLOCK Fall Brook. 

C. A. SANDT Easton. 

J. SCOLLAY Westminster, 

T. L. SPRINGER Loveville, Del. 

W. SPRINGER Loveville, Del. 

A. S. SWARTZ Kulpsville. 

J. E. WATKINS Richmond, Va. 

W. WIELY, Je Downington. 

J. W. WILSON Easton. 

J. M. YOUNG Easton. 





OPHOMO 




J. E. SHULL Pkesident. 

W. S. AYRES Vice-Peesident. 

E S. DOTY Secretakt. 

D. H. CAMPBELL • • Treasubeb. 

E. L. HILLIS Historian. 

M.EMBERS. 

J. B. ANDREWS Agricultural College 

W. S. AYEES AUamuchy, N. J. 

W. D. BABCOCK Evansville, Ind. 

J. M. BIRCH Claysville. 

J. G. BOLTON Philadelphia. 

W. C. BROBSTON Bridgeton, N. J. 

A. D. BROWN. Pottsville. 

B. H. B. CAMERON SeUnsgrove. 

D. H. CAMPBELL Antistown. 

E. S. DOTY Mifflintown. 

W. A. DOUGLASS New York City. 

A. S. ELLIOTT Callensburg. 

T. FASSITT Philadelphia. 

J. FOX Easton. 

W. P. GAINES Columbia, Texas. 

73 





THE REPORTER. 




J. S. GANTZ Hagerstown, Md. 

J. I. GOOD Reading. 

J. A. GREGORY Alexandria. 

A. E. GROVER Richmond, Va. 

J. J. HEINEY Easton. 

E. L. HILLIS Herrick. 

S. H. HOUSER Mauch Chunk. 

L. HOWELL Greenwich, N. J. 

C. T. KRATZ Freeland. 

J. B. LAW Pittston. 

W. S. LONG Point Pleasant. 

S. K. McBRIDE New Alexandria. 

N. M. Mccracken Slate Lick. 

R. Mcdowell Slatlngton. 

J. Mcpherson Hernckvllle. 

J. A. MENAUL Tyrone, Ireland. 

F. G. MORROW Herrick. 

J. T. NOBLE. ClaysYiUe. 

A. J. PILGRIM Columbia, Texas. 

J. H. RITTENHOUSE Georgetown, D. C. 

J. E. SHULL Martin's Creek. 

H. A. SMITH Chestnut HiU, PhUa. 

H, F. SMITH Lyons, Iowa. 

S. C. SMITH Essex, Conn. 

W. E. SMITH Hammonton, N. J. 

R. P. SNOWDEN .Philadelphia. 

J. SNYDER StonersviUe. 

J. S. STEWART Alexandria. 

W. S. SWEENEY Easton. 

C. G. VORIS .Danville. 

W. P. WILSON Huntington. 

W. L. ZEIGLER Mount Joy. 







'^^ 



J. G. DIEFENDERFER Pkesident. 

H. M. STRCBLE Vice-Peesident. 

E. M. KILLOUGH Seceetaet. 

A. R. READ Teeasueee. 

S. G. BARNES Chaplain. 

A. T. SMITH Poet. 

N. TAYLOR Oratob. 

D. W. BRUCKART Histoeian. 

L. E. WALLER Maeshal. 

L. P. APPELMAN Asst. Maeshal. 



J* 



EMBERS. 



W. 0. ANDERSON Youngstown. 

E. J. ANGLE Herrick. 

L. P. APPELMAN Bloomsburg. 

E. A. BARBER West Chester. 

S. G. BARNES Perth Amboy, N. J. 

E. S. BARRICK Croton, N. J. 

J. R. BENNETT Phillipsburg, N. J. 

ENOCH BENSON Bridgeton, N. J. 

J. C. BERGSTRESSER Mt. Carmel. 

G. N. BEST Pittston, N. J. 

F. P. BILLMEYER Bloomsburg. 

CICERO BROADHEAD Delaware Water Gap, 

D. W. BRUCKART Silver Spring. 

H. P. BUCKLEY Easton. 

J. A. CANAN El Dorado. 

75 





THE REPORTER. 




E. K. CASE Frenchtown, N. J. 

B. CHAMBERS, Jk Chambersburg. 

W. C. CLINE Harmony, N. J. 

M. L. COOK. Merryall. 

A. H. DAVIDSON. Augusta. Ga. 

J. G. DIEFENDERFEE AUentown. 

F. DRAKE Easton. 

T. C. ENGLISH Liberty Corner, N. J 

J. FRACE Hecktown. 

H. C. FROST Cleveland, Ohio. 

T. 0. GALBREATH Pylesville, Md. 

W. B. GEMMILL Fawn Grove. 

A. K. HANNEN Philadelphia. 

W. H. HULICK Easton. 

E. M. KILLOUGH Harrisburg. 

CYRUS KNECHT Easton. 

G. M. LEWIS Wyalusing. 

W. R. LITTLE West Chester. 

J. H. LOTT Easton. 

T. McNINCH Pottsgrove. 

A. K. MICHLER Washington, D. C. 

W. MORGAN South River, N. J. 

J. R. McINTYRE New York City. 

J. NOBLE Easton. 

A. R. READ Clearfield. 

W. B. REED.. . Chambersburg. 

J. M. ST. CLAIR Indiana. 

W. H. SCHUYLER Bloomsburg. 

W. M. SHANKS New York City. 

J. R. SHIMER Martin's Creek. 

A. T. SMITH MarshaU, Texas. 

C. K. SMITH Chestnut Hill. 

A. SNYDER. . .^. Easton. 

H. A. STEES. Easton. 

W. C. STERLING New Derry. 

W. J. STEWART, Jk Duncannon. 

R. M. STOCKER HamUnton. 

H. S. STRUBLE Pleasant Valley, N. J 





FRESHMEN. 

NATHANIEL TAYLOR Mooresburg. 

L. E. WALLER Bloomsburg. 

J. G. WILLIAMSON, Jr Sidney, N. J. 

SPECIALS IN EMINEEKING. 

W. S. KENNEDY Greencastle. 

S. M. NELSON .Chambersbun 






MUxm in (S^alleij^ wlto Served guving iUt ^tMlimu 



SENIORS. 

J. H. BRENSINGER . .Private 124:th Pa. Wounded before Petersburg. 

C. K. CANFIELD Private 141st Pa. Wounded at Chancellorsville. 

WILLIAM GEMMILL Lieutenant 148tli Pa. Wounded at Chancellorsville. 

J. J. HARDY Private 45tli Pa. 

T. JACOBSON Sergeant 5th N. Y. Art. 

JUNIORS. 

J. C. CRAWFORD Musician 14l8t Pa. 

F. GUTELIUS Sergeant 150th Pa. 

JOHN SCOLLAY Private 25th Mass. 

SOPHOMORES. 
J. B. ANDREWS Private 148th Pa. 




78 





^^ ORGANIZED 1833. ^^ 



^^ 'y/^*/ c^<^cL^ t\t ^y (^V,c0y^U.''' 



OFFICERS. 

C. K. CANFIELD President. 

T. L. SPRINGER Vice-President. 

WM. WIELY Treasurer. 

J. I. GOOD Recording Secretaby. 

J. M. CRAWFORD Corresponding " 

F. GUTELIUS Librarian. 

D. B. KING, \ 

W. C. BROBSTON, V Executive Committee. 

W. H. SCHUYLER, ) 

Number of members, sixty-five. 

Ihe objects of the Society are, to diflfuse a Christian spirit throughout the 
College, to collect information, and to awaken an interest in respect to Missionary 
work. 

Under the auspices of the Society there is held, at 6 p. m., 

About fifty of its members are engaged as Superintendents and Teachers in the 
Sabbath-Schools in and around Easton. Seven of these Schools, and several 
weekly Cottage Prayer-Meetings are conducted almost wholly by them. 

The Society maintains the only Reading-Room in College, and has a Library of 
five hundred volumes. 

Many Clergymen and prominent Laymen have been connected with this organ- 
ization in past years. Its anniversary is held on Sunday eve preceding Com- 
mencement. 

79 




Officers. 

Eev. W. C. CATTELL, D. D Peesident {Ex Officio). 

Key. THOMAS C. POETER, D. D 1st Vice-Pbesident. 

ABEAM P. GAEBEE, B. S 2d Vice-Pkesident. 

W. GEAY HELLEE Eecoeding Seceetakt. 

Eev. HENEY S. OSBORNE, LL. D Coeeesponding Seceetakt. 

JAMES W. PIATT Teeasueek. 

NOEEIS H. CONE Libeaeian. 

Eev. THOMAS C. POETER, \ 

EDWARD S. MOFFAT, V Cukatoks. 

NORRIS H. CONE, ) 



J* 



EM BERS. 



W. B. ADAMSON, 
W. D. BABCOCK, 
E. A. J-5ARBER, 

A. P. BECHDOLT, 
ELI.JAH CASE, 

W. C. CATTELL, 
N. H. CONE, 

B. DOUGLASS, Je., 
THOMAS PASSITT, 
A. P. GAEBEE, 

J. A. GEEGOEY. 
TEAILL GREEN, 
HUGH HAMILTON, 
J. A. HAND, 
W. J. HELLER, 



R. J. HESS, 

W. J. HOGG, 

J. B. JUVENAL, 

W. E. LITTLE, 

J. H. LOGAN, 

J. Y. LONG, 

C. McINTYRE, Jk. 

H. D. Mcknight, 

W. McMURTEIE, 

E. S. MOFFAT, 
J. W. MOOEE, 
H. S. OSBOENE,. 

F. H. PIATT, 
J. W. PIATT, 
T. C. POETER, 



80 



NATURAL HISTOEY SOCIETY. 




A. H. SHEEEEED, J. E. WATKINS, 

HOWAED SMITH, S. G. WILSON, 

W. S. SWEENY, A. H. SKINNEE, 

H. F. WALLING, J. P. ZIEGLEE. 

HONORARY MEMBERS. 

Dk. JOHN CUEWEN Harrisburg. 

Dr. J. H. SLACK Bloomsbury, N. J. 

Mk. CEEVELIN Bloomsbury, N J. 

W. H. STULTZ Easton. 

De. J. MEIXSELL Easton. 

CALVIN BETTEL Easton. 

EICHAED CHEIST Nazareth. 

De. JOSEPH LEIDY Philadelphia. 

Hon. J. P. WICKEESHAM Lancaster. 

S. S. EA.THOOM Lancaster. 

J. S. STAUFFEE • -Lancaster. 



ashington fitcrari ^ocietg. 



m 



w(b 



.,.*%^ 






M^ 



I, 

.- *r 







ESTABLISHED 1830. 



D. B. KING Pkesident. 

W. M. SHANKS 1st VicE-PBEsroENT. 

W. C. STERLING 2d ViOE-PREsroENT. 

W. B. REED Secretaet. 

A. H. DAVIDSON Asst. Secretary. 

I. McPHERSON Treasurer. 

B. W. LEWIS Librarian. 

W. C. ANDERSON Asst. Librarian. 

J. C .CRAWFORD, ) 

>■ Corresponding Committee. 

W. C. ANDERSON, ) 

M.EM.BERS. 

IST'O. 
R. W. D. BRYAN, F. H. PIATT, 

J. EMMERT, J. W. PIATT, 

W. GEMMILL, W. S. RONEY, 

J. J. HARDY, A. H. SHERRERD, 

W. G. HELLER, J. H. WRIGHT, 

S. H. KAERCHER, J. P. ZIEGLER. 

J.Q'YJ-. 
I. BORTS, R. M, HAYS, 

F. BOYLE, F. B. HECKMAN, 

M. H. BRADLEY, J. B. HUDSON, 

E. BRYAN, • D. B. KING, 

J. C. CRAWFORD, B. W. LEWIS, 

J. M. CRAWFORD, J. A. McKNIGHT, 

B. DOUGLASS, Jr., J. F. POLLOCK, 

T. M. FARQUHAR, C. A. SANDT, 

85 




THE KEPORTEE. 




J. M. HAKEIS, 
0. F. HAEVEY, 

0. J. HAKVEY, 

J. B. ANDREWS, 
W. C. BROBSTON, 
A. D. BROWN, 
D. H. CAMPBELL, 
W. A. DOUGLASS, 
W. P. GAINES, 
J. A, GREGORY, 

1. McPHERSON, 
J. A. MENAUL, 
F. G. MORROW, 



W. C. ANDERSON, 

E. J. ANGLE, 

S. G. BARNES, 

E. BENSON, 

D. W. BRUGKART, 

J. A. CANAN, 

B. CHAMBERS, 

M. L. COOK, 

A. H. DAVIDSON, 

T. C. ENGLISH, 

H. C. FROST, 



137 



J. SCOLLAY, 

T. L. SPRINGER, 

W. SPRINGER. 



A. J. PILGRIM, 

J. H. RITTENHOUSE, 

H. A. SMITH, 

H. F. SMITH, 

E. L. HILLIS, 

S. K. McBRIDE, 

N. M. Mccracken, 

S. C. SMITH, 
J. S. STEWART, 
W. S. SWEENY, 
W. L. ZIEGLEE. 

13 V3. 

T. C. GALBREATH, 
W. B. GEMMILL, 
A. K. HANNEN, 
E. M. KILLOUGH, 
G. M. LEWIS, 
A. R. READ, 
W. B. REED, 
J. M. ST. CLAIR; 
W. M. SHANKS, 
A. T. SMITH, 
C. K. SMITH, 
W. C. STERLING. 



SPECIAL STUDENTS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING. 
W. S. KENNEDY, T. M, NELSON. 




Iiianklin Ittcrarii locietu. 





FOUNDED 1831, 



"i^vxTj Kapdia ^p?/i'. 



Officei^s, 

W. B. OWEN President. 

L. H. BARBER Vice-Pkesident, 

A. W. LONG Secketaby. 

G. K. McMURTRIE Rec. Secketaky. 

W. B. OWEN Cor. Secretary. 

J. E. SHULL Treasurer. 

W. H. SCHUYLER Librarian. 

J. COWAN, ) 

„ „ y Orators. 

W. WIELY, Jr., f 

J. G. DIEFENDERFER Scriptor. 

W. S. FULTON Poet. 

M. E M B E F^S . 

J. H. BRENSINGER, T. JACOBSON, 

C. K. CANFIELD, H. ROLAND, 

L. W. DOTY, D. J. WALLER, Jr., 

J. R. YOUNGMAN. 

18^71. 
J. S. AXTELL, A. W. LONG, 

L. H. BARBER, G. K. McMURTRIE, 

A. BRYDEN, W. McMURTRIE, 

N. H. CONE, J. MEIGS, 

J. COWAN, F. T. OLDT, 

S. H. EASTON, W. B. OWEN, 

7 89 




THE REPORTER. 



F. W. EDGAR. 
W. S. FULTON, 
H. P. GLOVER, 
F. GUTELIUS, 
J. T. HOUSTON, 
W. St. G. KENT. 

W. S, AYRES, 

W. D. BABCOCK, 

J. G. BOLTON, 

B. H. B. CAMERON, 

E. S. DOTY, 

T. FASSITT, 

J. FOX, 

J. S. GANTZ, 

J. I. GOOD, 



la'T'a- 



J. R. PAULL, 
A. SWARTZ, 
J. E. WATKINS, 
W. WIELY, Je., 
J. W. WILSON, 
J. M. YOUNG. 

S. H. HOUSER, 
J. B. LAW, 
W. S. LONG, 

R. M. McDowell, 

J. E. SHULL, 
W. E. SMITH, 
R. P. SNOWDEN, 
J. SNYDER, 
0. G. SNYDER, 



W. P. WILSON. 



1 3 V 3 



L. P. APPELMAN, 
E. A. BARBER, 

E. S. BARRICK, 
J. R. BENNETT, 

J. C. BERGSTRESSER, 
G. N. BEST, 

F. P. BILLMEYER, 
C. BRODHEAD, 

H. T. BUCKLEY, 

E. R. CASE, 

W. C. CLINE, 

J. G. DIEFENDERFER, 

J. FRACE, 

G. L. HUGGINS, 
W. H. HULICK, 
S. H. JACKSON, 
C. KNECHT, 



W. R. LITTLE, 

J. H. LOTT, 

T. McNINCH, 

A. K. MICHLER, 

W. MORGAN, 

J. NOBLE, 

W. H. SCHUYLER, 

J. R. SHIMER, 

A. SNYDER, 

H. A. STEES, 

W. J. STEWART, Je. 

R. M. STOCKER, 

H. M. STRUBLE, 

N. TAYLOR, 

W. THOMPSON, Je., 

L. E. WALLER, 

J. G. WILLIAMSON. 





.^.lii^aoiiilliOll^^ 



JUNE 38, 1870. 



€>xniot before Sottelics. 
Pkof. CHARLES ELLIOTT, D. D Chicago. 

WASHINGTON. 

GEORGE R. KAERCHER Orator. 

R. W. D. BRYAN Valedictorian. 

L Mcpherson respondek. 

J. B. ANDREWS, | 

I Marshals. 

W. P. GAINES, 1 ■ 



FRANKLIN. 

J. A. LIGGETT Orator. 

L. W. DOTY Valedictorian. 

JOHN FOX Responder. 

J. S. GANTZ, I -^ 

\. . Marshals 

C. G. VORIS: 






91 



93 




94 




j^i lappa §igma. 



GAMMA CHAPTER-ESTABLISHED 1853. 



RESIDENT MEMBERS. 

H. D. LACHENOUE, '59, CHARLES F. CHIDSEY, '64, 

H. L. BUNSTEIN, '64, J. WHITFIELD WOOD, '66, 

HENRY W. SCOTT, '67. 

ACTIVE MEMBERS. 

2.QVO. 
J. H. BRENSINGER, LUCIEN W. DOTY. 

W. S. FULTON, J. R. PAULL. 

1372. 
T. FASSITT, J. S. GANTZ, 

R. M. McDowell, j. e. shull, 

W. A. p. WILSON. 

C. C. HOMMANN, G. L. HUGGINS, 

W. H. HULICK, S. H. JACKSON, 

ARTHUR SNYDER, W. H. THOMPSON. 



95 





tlt'ii Sappa Sp5il0it, 



RHO CHAPTER-ESTABLISHED 1855, 



RESIDENT MEMBERS. 

SAMUEL FKEEMAN, M. A., JOS. MARTIN, M. A., '59, 

Prof. J. W. MOORE, M. A., M. D., '64. 

ACTIVE MEMBERS. 

SAMUEL H. KAERCHER, WILLL^M S. RONEY. 

1871.- 

JAS. C. CRAWFORD, CHARLES McCAULEY, 

OSCAR JEWELL HARVEY, JAMES A. McKNIGHT, 

DAVID B. KING, JOHN SCOLLAY, 

BRADLEY W. LEWIS, AARON S. SWARTZ. 

18713. 

ALGERNON D. BROWN, ELISHA L. HILLIS, 

WILLIAM P. GAINES, ARTHUR J. PILGRIM, 

JAMES I. GOOD, JEFFERSON SNYDER. 

1873- 
EDWARD M. KILLOUGH, GEORGE M. LEWIS, 

AUGUSTUS T. SMITH. 




97 




%tiK 



61. 



TAU CHAPTER-ESTABLISHED 1857. 



RESIDENT MEMBERS. 



WILLIAM W. MOON, '61, 

*JOHN H. BUCKLEY, '63. 

S. V. B. KACHLINE, '63, 

W. S. KIRKPATKICK, '63, 

FRANCIS REEDER, '63, 

W. HACKETT, Jk., CoU. of N. J., '63, 



HOWARD R. REEDER, '63, 
CLEMENT STEWART, '64, 
GEORGE T. KELLER, '66, 
ROBERT J. HESS, '67, 
CHARLES I. RADER, '67, 
A. B. HOWELL, '68, 



H. D. Mcknight, '69. 

ACTIVE MEMBERS. 

levo. 

TERENCE JACOBSON. 

OLIN F. HARVEY, JOHN MEIGS, 

GEORGE K. McMURTRIE, WILLIAM B. OWEN, 

JOHN F. POLLOCK. 



isr72 



J. BOYD ANDREWS, 
DAVID H. CAMPBELL, 

WILLIAM C. ANDERSON, 
HERBERT T. BUCKLEY, 



levs. 



JOHN M. BIRCH, 
JOHN FOX. 



E. J. ANGLE, 
JOHN A. CANAN. 



* Deceased. 




99 





100 





(lljftii Mtltii j|]^i» 



PHI CHARG-E-ESTABLISHED 1866. 



RESIDENT MEMBERS. 

E. D. DOUGLASS, W. N. STEM, 

F. W. STEWART. 

ACTIVE MEMBERS. 

IB 7 0. 
ALEX. H. SHEERERD. 

1S71- 
B. DOUGLASS, Jr., J. M. HARRIS, 

J. B. JUVENAL.* 

lava. 

W. A. DOUGLASS, HARRY A. SMITH, 

HOWARD F. SMITH. 

18'73. 

L. P. APPELMAN, J. H. LOTT, 

F. P. BILLMEYER, , W. H. PARKER, 
H. C. FROST, C. K. SMITH. 

* Left College. 



101 




m 



m 



igma for. 



PHI CHAPTER-ESTABLISHED 1867. 



RESIDENT MEMBER. 

JOHN D. MAXWELL. 

ACTIVE MEMBERS. 

18 VO- 
E. W. D, BEYAN, J. KUSSEL YOUNGMAN, 

HOEACE EOLAND, JAMES P. ZIEGLEE. 

18^1. 
EDWAED BEYAN, J. ELFEETH WATKINS. 

1872. 

SAMUEL H. HOUSEE, JAMES H. EITTENHOUSE, 

EOBEET P. SNOWDEN. 

18^73. 
EDWIN A. BAEBEE, EOBEET W. MAHON, 

CICEEO BEODHEAD, A. KIETLAND MICHLEE. 




"^ 






psilon ^^ta. 



THETA CHAPTER-ESTABLISHED 1868. 

RESIDENT MEMBER. 
LAWRENCE P. MYERS. 

ACTIVE MEMBERS. 

IS'T'O. 



FRANK H. PIATT, 



JAMES W. PIATT. 



18 71. 
SYLVANUS H. EASTON, HARRY K. McCLELLAND. 

1872. 
B. H. B. CAMERON, JOHN B. LAW. 

18^73. 
WILLIAM MORGAN*, ABNER LLOYD ROCKWELL, 

WILLIAM J. STEWART, Jb. 



105 




*****^*»»»*** 



106 




. ^ 



CO 



l^r ^'appa fsi. 



THETA CHAPTER-ESTABLISHED 1869. 



ACTIVE MEMBERS. 

L. H. BAKBER, H. P. GLOVER, 

A. BRYDEN, S. G. WILSON. 

C. G. VORIS. 

la V3- 

J. C. BERGSTRESSER, D. W. BRUCKART. 



107 



O 1* 1 © « 

FOUNDED ANNO DOMINI 1867. 

3. 




SYLE M^ THONE mARAN HLAF. 



'E4,opo, J. K- YOUNGMAN. 

UETE^opoi J. K. PAULL. 

Tpa,,ar.., THOMAS FASSITT. 

A^^.,-,, JOHN SCOLLAY. 



MEMBERS. 



A. D. BROWN, 

B. H. B. CAMERON, 
THOMAS FASSITT, 
W. P. GAINES, 

J. S. GANTZ, 
G. L. HUGGINS, 

R. M. McDowell, 



F. T. OLDT, 
J. E. PAULL, 
JOHN SCOLLAY, 
A. T. SMITH, 
J. E. WATKINS, 
W. A. P. WILSON, 
J. R. YOUNGMAN, 



W. L. ZIEGLER. 



109 




THE REPORTER. 




l-iA^AlTBI^-'^-'E 




SERO VENIENTIBUS OSSA. 



J. J. HARDY Pkesident. 

J. A. Mcknight vice-Peesident. 

J. L. SPEINGEE Tkea-sueeb and Commissakt. 



MEMBERS. 



W. C. ANDERSON, 
M. H. BRADLEY, 
B. CHAMBERS, Jk., 
J. J. HARDY, 

E. M. HAYS, 

S. H. KAERCHER, 
W. S. KENNEDY, 

J. A. Mcknight, 

T. M. nelson, 

F. H. PIATT, 



J. W. PIATT, 
W. B. REED, 
H. ROLAND, 
W. M. SHANKS, 
J. E. SHIMER, 
J. E. SHULL, 
T. L. SPRINGER, 
W. SPRINGER, 
J. M. ST. CLAIR, 
W. WIELY, Jk. 




EATING CLUBS. 



Ill 



SSOOR A^'IO 




And briNgad aN fset styric and ofslead^; aNd utoN etax, 
and gepist'full'iaN. 



W. B. OWEN President. 

J. F. POLLOCK Vice-Peesident. 

J. C. CRAWFORD Teeasueek. 

M. L. COOK, ) 

J. , 0< aaipiaTOi. 

J. G. :B0LT0N, j 

ACTIVE MEMBERS. 

E. l. hillis, d. b. kino, 

B. W. LEWIS, W. GEMMILL, 

J. H. WRIGHT, J. H. BRENSINGER, 

l. w. doty, J. Mcpherson, 

JEFF. SNYDER, E. S. DOTY, 

A. S. SWARTZ. 







THE REPORTER. 




||]^il0S0pljers of i\t §lat-0 U^con ^c\}ooL 



CONSIDEEE OffiNa; FACILE, DIFFICILE SURGEEE. 



L. P. APPELMAN Geav-E Member. 

F. P. BILLMEYER Chekub of the Lasses. 

C. McCAULEY Spillek of Liquids. 

O. F. HAEVEY Ye Shovist op Dessert. 

D. J. WALLER, Jr Agitator of the Carving Knife. 

L. E. WALLER Shad-o-w-t One. 

J. P. ZIEGLER Champion Dumplingist. 





EATING CLUBS. 



It|e 5fogof)l]^go^^leiroo^fi(lrqne 61^!). 







HASH EATERS. 


COWAN, ' 


ANDREWS, 


KILLOUGH, 
LITTLE, 


CASE, 
McINTYRE. 




SOUP SWILLERS. 


GUTELIUS, 

BRYDEN, 

CONE, 


W. B. GEMMILL, 
BERGSTRESSER, 
McMURTRIE, 




AYRES. 




FISH MONGERS. 


BARBER, 

VORIS, 

EASTON, 


BRUCKART, 

GOOD, 

SCHUYLER. 




PIE TEARERS. 


JACOBSON, 

GLOVER, 

DAVIDSON, 


MEIGS, 

FOX, 

ENGLISH. 




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THE REPOKTER. 




DB£aSO^A8£« 




KEEP YOUR JAWS GOING, BOYS 



OFFICERS. 

JONATHAN EMMERT Peesident. 

J. T. HOUSTON Vice-Pkesident. 

J. M. CRAWFORD Secketaet. 

A. JULIUS PILGRIM Teeasubee. 

FREYING MEMBERS. 

JON. EMMERT, D. H. CAMPBELL, 

J. T. HOUSTON, G. M. LEWIS, 

J. A. CANAN, E. J. ANGLE, 

J. A. MENAUL, T. C. GALBREATH, 

J. S. AXTELL, S. G. BARNES, 

J. M. CRAWFORD, W. C. STERLING, 

A. JULIUS PILGRIM, A. R. READ. 






EATING CLUBS, 



115 



n^EAETON (AWFUL-EATING). 

VIVIMUS EDERE. BUM VIVIMUS VIVAMUS. 

Venimus, 



Vidimus, 




Vicimus, 



Exaiurabamur. 
PRIOR TEMPORE, PRIOR JURE. 

CAVERNOSORUM DENTItTM.* 

A. H. SHEKKERD Pkimds intee pakes. 

J. H. RITTENHOUSE Secundus intee paees. 

R. W. D. BRYAN Beneficioeum solicitatoe. 

J. B. LAW Vis comioa. 

H. A. and C. K. smith Pae nobile feateum. 

W. McMURTRIE Soebillo oee. 

C. BRODHEAD Alii index. 

W. D. B ABCOCK Jentacttlo oaenis advocatus. 

FIRMORUM DENTIUM. 

A. K. MICHLER Seevus ad manum. 

E. A. BARBER Seevus ad pecdnias. 

H. C. FROST OSTEEI ADMIEATOE. 

E. BRYAN DocTUS dispxjtatoe subtilis. 

A. K. H ANNEN Lantoeum scaivus hellus. 

R. P. SNOWDEN EiiEPHANTis Caeptoe. 

S. H. HOUSER PisTi CKUSTi amatoe. 

* Charged double board. 





116 THE REPORTER. 




]^UrRSK A 



NOS CONVIVIA CANTAMUS. 



J. G. DIEFENDERFEK Regtoatoe. 

W. S. FULTON. Stamp Coi^lectok. 

V/. E. SMITH Chaplain. 

W. MORGAN AuiHOK of Table Talk. 

J. G. WILLIAMSON .Buffalo Eater. 

W. J. STEWART ... Chief Pudding Eatee. 

HASH CONSUMERS. 
J. B. HUDSON, J. M. BIRCH. 

PI(E)OUS DIVISION. 

w. c. CLiNE, H. K. McClelland, 

H. M. STRUBLE. 





OFFICERS. 

J. BOYD ANDREWS Captain. 

THOMAS FASSITT 1st Lieutenant. 

ROBERT P. SNOWDEN 2d Lieutenant. 

J. S. GANTZ 3d Lieutenant. 

WILLIAM P. GAINES Pubseb. 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
H. A. SMITH, R. P. SNOWDEN, 

S. H. HOUSER, 



A. J. PILGRIM. 



Four-oared Spanish Cedar Barge 

"N E T T L E," 

Thirty-eight feet long, four feet wide. Uniform— Blue and White. 




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J. E. SHULL, '72 .._....... Pkesident. 

C. G. VOEIS, 72...... Vice- Pkesident. 

H. A. SMITH, 72 . . . TBEAsxmEE. 

J. W. WILSON, 71 Secretakt. 

J. H. BRENSINGER, 70 Captain. 

FIRST NINE. 
J. H. BRENSINGER, P. J. R. McINTYRE, C. 

H. A. SMITH, 1st B. W. S. SWEENY, 2d B. 

E. S. DOTY, 3d B. J. E. SHULL, S. S. 

J. S. GANTZ, L. F. J. W. WILSON, C. F. 

C. G. VORIS, R. F. 

Substitutes. 
J. M. CRAWFORD, S. C. GALBREATH. 

The College nine during the past four years has played five matches, winning 
four, one being a tie. 

Lafayette vs. Belvidere Club. 

Warren Co. Fair, N. J. September, 1866. Score, 23 to 7. 

PRIZE— A SILVER BALL. 

Lafayette vs. Chintewink. 
Jersey Flats. May, 1867. Score, 52 to 19. 

Lafayette vs. Lehigh University. 

Easton. October, 1869. Score, 45 to 45. 

Lafayette vs. Lehigh University. 
Bethlehem. October, 1869. Score, 31 to 24. 

Lafayette vs. Lehigh University. 

Easton. May 14th, 1870. Score, 50 to 34. 

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BASE-BALL CLUBS. 



^fl. 



NE PLUS ULTRA. 



FIRST NINE. 
J. C. CRAWFOBD, Captain. 

H. K. McClelland, istB. J. w. wilson, 2dB. 

A. SWARTZ, 3d B. JNO. POLLOCK, S. S. 

J. C. CRAWFORD, P. J. M. CRAWFORD, C. 

J. COWAN, R. F. W. S. FULTON, C. F. 

G. K. McMURTRIE. L. F. 

E. BRYAN, ScoBER. 



FIRST NINE. 

W. S. SWEENY, Captain. 
J. S. GANTZ, 2d B. C. G. VORIS, S. S. 

E. S. DOTY, C. J. SISfYDER, 1st B. 

J. E. SHULL, L. F. W. S. SWEENY, 3d B. 

H. A. SMITH, P. J. FOX, C. F. 

W. A. P. WILSON, R. F. 



FIRST NINE. 
H. C. FROST, Captain. 
J. R. McINTYRE. C. L. P. APPELMAN, 3d B. 

T. C. GALBREATH, P. J. G. WILLIAMSON, L. F. 

H. A. STEERS, IstB. A. H. DAVIDSON, C. F. 

C. KNECHT, 2d B. F. P. BILLMEYER, R. F. 

H. C. FROST, S. S. 





Pioneer Cro qjj e t Club. 

SCABIES OCCUPET EXTREMUM. 

D. J. WALLEK. .Peesident. 

JOHN SCOLLAY Vice Pivesident. 

J. M. CRAWFORD Secketaby. 

J. C. CRAWFORD Tbeasuree. 



W. GEMMILL, 
J. H. WRIGHT, 
D. J. WALLER, 
W. B. OWEN, 
F. GUTELIUS, 



;* 



EM BERS. 



J. C. CRAWFORD, 
E. L. HILLIS, 
JOHN SCOLLAY, 
B. W. LEWIS, 
J. M. CRA.WFORD. 




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CROQUET CLUBS. 



A4)0APTON. 

ANIMI RELAXANDI CAUSA. 
OFFICERS. 

J. A. Mcknight president. 

W. p. GAINES Seceetaky. 

E. M. HAYES Teeasueeb. 

B. CHAMBERS Fiest Captain. 

J. R. PAULL Second Captain. 

MEMBERS. 
M. H. BRADLEY, 71, BENJAMIN CHAMBERS, 73, 

W. P. GAINES, 72, R. M. HAYES, 71, 

W. S. KENNEDY, J. A. McKNIGHT, 71, 

J. R. PAULL, 71, W. B. REED, 73. 



The Arch Players of 'j^ 

PER OSTIOLA AD PAXILLOS. 

OFFICERS. 

L. E. WALLER Dux Lusobum. 

T. McNINCH Homo Cum Lebeo. 



W. 

J. 

W. 

H. 

L. 

A. 

T. 

E 




MEMBERS. 

H. SCHUYLER Semper pabatus sed nunquam secundus. 

A. C ANAN In pugna toementum bellicum. 

C. STERLING Peaepinguis pulsatok. 

A. STEES lU^E PUliSAT ET teeea tibbat. 

E. WALLER DocTus in longis ictibus. 

T. SMITH Faber qui nihil faciat. 

McNINCH Ille pulsat et successus sequttub. 

BENSON Ijule pulsabe cessat et ostiola stimulantue. it 

1 ^ 



Senior^. 



SH-^A^H lsA.j^T. 



J. H. BEENSINGEE President. 

W. S. EONEY. Vice-Peesident. 

S. H. KAEECHEE Secretaey. 

J. W. PIATT Teeasubee. 



MEMBERS. 



J. E. YOUNGMAN, 
D. J. WALLEE, Jk., 
JAMES P. ZIEGLEE, 
A. H. SHEEEEED, 
J. H. WEIGHT, 
L. W. DOTY, 



E. W. D. BEYAN, 
C. K. CANFIELD, 
W. GEMMILL, 
S. H. KAEECHEE, 
J. H. BEENSINGEE, 
W. S. EONEY, 



JAMES W, PIATT. 



122 




CHESS CLUBS. 




The Chess Club of '71. 

VENI VIDI VICTTJRUS SUM. 

J. MEIGS Champion. 

A. S. SWAETZ King. 

J. M. ORAWFOED Qtjeew. 

W. SPRINGER Castlk 

J. C. CRAWFORD Bishop. 

H. P. GLOVER. : Knight. 



MEMBERS. 



J. C. CRAWFORD, 
J. M. CRAWFORD, 
B. DOUGLASS, Jr., 
H. P. GLOVER, 



F. S. OLDT, 
W. SPRINGER, 
A. S. SWARTZ, 
J. MEIGS. 



Theta Delt' Chess Club. 

ESTABLISHED 1869. 

B. DOUGLASS King. 

L. P. APPELMAN Knight. 

H. A. SMITH Bishop. 

W. N. STEM Pawn. 



MEMBERS. 



L. P. APPELMAN, 
F. P. BILLMEYER, 
B. DOUGLASS, Jk., 
R. D. DOUGLASS, 



J. E. LOTT, 
A. H. SHERRERD, 
H. F. SMITH, 
W. N. STEM. 



h 




ORPHEAN "WARBLERS. 

To 6ev6pa yeXCi>vra yovvTcerovat iig aipat ojkovol avrdv. 

TEKENCE JACOBSON, 70 Treble. 

S. H. KAERCHEK, 70 Alto. 

J. J. HARDY, 70 Tenob. 

HORACE ROLAND, 70 Basso Peofundo. 



i®¥©«iFai^® ®mi®«Bawl ilrai. 



KEEP TBE BATFI^ A-GOIJVG. 



, J. M. CRA.WFORD (Tune), Pitcheb. 
IsT Tenor •) 

" S. HOUSTON, Assistant Pitchek. 



f J. K 
I J. S 
J. MEIGS, Catcher (of the Pitch). 



2d Tenoe , 

T. M. FARQUHAR, Assistant Catchee. 

Alto .S. H. EASTON, Shoet Stop. 

M. H. BRADLEY, 1st B. 



i 



^^"^^^^" ' J. F. POLLOCK, 2i> B. 

( W. B. OWEN, 3d B. 

2^^^'^'' |w. S. FULTON. 4th B 

/J. C. CRAWFORD (Flute), R. F. 

Insteumental Accompanists -| J. M. YOUNG (Flute), L. F. 

( F. W. EDGAR (Melodeon), Steikee, 
124 




GLEE CLUBS. 




125 



imm 



"We'll Sing the Savagetiesa out of a Bear." 

JAMES L GOOD Leader. 

( JOHN B. LAW. 

i«^ ^'^^«« I E. Mc. Mcdowell. 

f J. S. GANTZ. 
2^Tenob I JOHN FOX. 

f E. L. HILLIS. 
^^■^ ^^^^ I W. S. AYRES. 

( J. BOYD ANDREWS. 
^° ^^^^ I W. LOWRIE ZEIGLER. 

♦-»-» 



W aiMtt^Ism tmatieil© ilmi* 



J. M. CRAWFORD 1st Tenok. 

J. J. HARDY 2d Tenoe. 

J. C. CRAWFORD 1st Bass. 

E. L. HILLIS 2d 




THE REPORTER, 




n© llmmtmi iimri^ii®^ 




A. K. E. 

"Wili ihou have Musio? Harh! Apollo plays, 
And ivieniy oaged nigMingales do sing." 



A. S. SWAETZ, 71 1st Tenoe. 

J. J. GOOD, 72 2d Tenoe. 

E. L. HILLIS, 72 1st Bass. 

J. C. CEAWFOED, 71 2d Bass. 

J. I. GOOD. Pianist. 




GLEE CLUBS, 



1®' 



T. JACOBSON SoPKANO. 

JOHN MEIGS Tenok. 

W. B. OWEN 1st Bass. 

J. F. POLLOCK 2d Bass. 

Piano Accompaniment. 
H. T. BUCKLEY. 



J. L GOOD Leader. 

J. MEIGS Tenoe. 

J. S. GANTZ Tenok. 

J. C. CRAWFORD Bass. 

J. S. HOUSTON Bass. 

T. JACOBSON Treble. 

J. B. LAW Treble. 






:|i 



M' 



Kliti 




''A orozarij or else a glorious iorrib ; 
A. sQepire, or an eariKly sepulchre. 



CoEPSE J. R. PAULL. 

Undebtaker , C. McCAULY. 

Heaese Deivek J. S. GANTZ. 

Sexton 0. F. HARVEY, 

( J. SCOLLAY. 

Pa(u)ll Beaeees 4 

^ ( W. A. p. WILSON. 

Property — three pairs of gloves and a coffin. 



128 






SUCCESSUS SIL.ENTIO SECURUS. 

1st Honoe J. H. BEENSINGER. 

2d " J. P. ZIEGLER. 

3d " R. W. D. BRYAN. 

4th " J.W.PIATT. 






ESTABLISHED 1868. 

J. M. HARRIS Lone -Jack. 

H. A. SMITH Meeeschaum. 

F. W. STEWART Viegin's Choice. 

W. N. STEM Long Clay. 

J. H. LOTT KiLLEKENICK. 

H. C. FROST Shoets. 

W. H. PARKER Beiak Root. 

C. K. SMITH POUNDEE. 



129 





i «t I 



(INDEFECTIBLE ORDER OF OPINIASTROUS EVANICS; 




Ooaaca-itTJi.s ^^. XJ. O. 2623. 



Si quceris fraternitatem amoenam, circumspice . 

"We are gentlemen, 
That neither in our hearts, nor outward eyes. 
Envy the great, nor do the low despise. " — P. P. T. 



"oL Kmrponoi. 

Dtnastes 0. J. HARVEY. 

LiBEABius B. DOUGLASS, Jk. 

Thesauki Ctjstos J. M. HAEKIS. 

Magistee Cebemoniaeum '. B. W. LEWIS. 

TERTITJS, aut gradus oculi et catenae. 

B. W. LEWIS, Q. R. C Naturalis Historicus. 

B. DOUGLASS, Je Le Diable Boiteux. 

( (Long-Les;sed Dynastes, Knight of 

O. J. HARYEY, L. L. D. K. G. Q \\r.\. %^ -n . 

( the Goose-QuiU. ) 

J. S. GANTZ Quoter of Endearing Epithets. 

130 ^ 




I. 0. OF 0. E. 



SECUNDUS, aut gradus clavis. 



J. M. HAREIS Contortor villi- 

E. L. HILLIS ^ Batellite of Venus. 

E. M. KILLOUGH Ye mighty Masticator of Pindar s, alias P. Nuts. 

C. McCAULEY Confector herbte Nicotianis. 

PRIMUS, aut gradus librorum. 

M 

W. p. WILSON Hellus librorum. 

W. M. SHANKS Explicator Scriptorum. 

O. F. HAEVE Y " Animal implume bipes. " 

W. P. GAINES " Tom," or the Texas Ranger. 



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